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...Whites took up their position on a knoll with good cover, protected by stone walls, trees, and a barbed-wire fence at the edge of an adjoining meadow. From across the meadow the Browns advanced, attempting to hurl the Whites from their position, but under a withering fire the former were annihilated, and the steady shooting of the Whites rendered their position impregnable. Part of the Browns' poor success was due to the lack of careful and efficient scouting, as well as ill-planned reconnoisance...
March 11.--Meadow Brook Athletic Club meet at Philadelphia...
...University who are spending a part of the week-end at New Haven the following list of hotels and eating places is printed: Hotel Taft, College and Chapel streets, telephone 4520; Hotel Bishop, 1074-80 Chapel street; telephone 1882; The Duncan, 1151 Chapel street, telephone 4550; Hotel Garde, Meadow street and Union avenue, opposite the Union Station, telephone 4580; Warren Hall Dining Room, 1044 Chapel street; Metzgers (Heublein's), corner of Church and Court streets; Cafe Mellone, 35 Centre street; Hof Brau Haus, corner of Church and Crown streets; Old Heidelberg, 135 Temple street; Child's, corner of Crown...
...Adams contributes also "A Bird's Song in the Meadow," a lyric with a music of its own and sometimes of positive charm. The other poetical offerings do not rise appreciably above the level of Monthly verse. In both prose and verse there is on the whole a reassuring absence of pose, and a true play of that "amateur spirit" which is one of the best symptoms in any periodical. M.A. DE WOLFE HOWE...
...walls of the maligned Hemenway Gymnasium is a bowling alley, where he will find both physical exertion and the most delightfully fickle uncertainty. The alley resembles a relief map of the state of Nevada. The balls have little devils in them, and they skip and prance from upland to meadow, while the timid pins, across the divide, stand firm as a Central American army. At the noisy bouncing approach of the enemy, the timid pins, like a Central American army, shiver and fall. One can make a tolerable score without hitting a pin. Chance is everywhere: in the lop-sided...