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Princeton set to work to get rid of these bad tendencies in preparation for the expected hard game with Dartmouth. That this preparation was necessary was shown by the close score of the game which Princeton was lucky enough to win, 7 to 3. One mis-sent Dartmouth forward pass, which Driggs intercepted and carried 65 yards for a touchdown, spelled victory for the Nassau team, although in the beginning of the game Dartmouth led by one field goal. The first score of the season against Princeton was made by Captain Gerrish, of the Hanover team, who kicked a placement...
...sheets with the kindest remembrances from Robert Louis Stevenson." Much is in the proofs that does not appear in the published volume. Ten lines of one poem were later dropped bodily for some personal reason of the author. There are two corrections of typographical errors and a number of mis-spelled words that had to be rectified...
...library of Harry Widener. The first page of this copy is covered by a note in Byron's handwriting, as attested by the publisher, John Murray. In this the author implores 'those superior persons--the publisher and printer--that they will in future, less misspell, misplace, mistake, and mis-everything, the humbled M.S.S. of their humble Servant. Oct. 26th, 1821.' There are three volumes of Wordsworth's Poems, one of them made up of several 'first editions' as published separately, and all containing, in the author's hand, the corrections of wording, phrases and punctuation which he introduced into...
...saddest and yet most encouraging features of the present war is the entire lack of any definite opinion on the part of the masses of the people concerned as to what the causes of the war are or what they as individuals will ever gain. Undoubtedly some mis-educated leaders on both sides have had aggressive desires; all who have come from the warring countries are agreed that to the people it is a war of self-defence...
...Harvard nine's ability to play good baseball. Not an error was made in the first game with Princeton, and although the batting was light, hits were made at the most timely moments. It has been said of that game that Harvard won only because Princeton made mis-plays; but as Coach Pieper said at the recent mass meeting, it speaks well for a team if it is able to make the most of its opponents' errors...