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...varsity eleven appeared yesterday in their new uniforms. The suit consists of a dark crimson, thickly knit jersey with a white "H," a canvas jacket, crimson stockings and belt, and breeches of thick mole-skin of a creamy white. These are the features of the uniform. They have a thick hair mattress padding on each knee and each hip, and cling close to the leg just below the knee. The uniforms altogether present a good appearance, although they are now a little too clean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/23/1886 | See Source »

correspondent makes a mountain out of a mole-hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/18/1886 | See Source »

...rivalry between Harvard and Yale "which often carries the students of both colleges to excess," but it is denied that there is a "quarrel waged with bitterness." The Harvard HERALD says that our Chambers street neighbor, in dealing with this question, has "made a mountain out of a mole hill," and we incline to the same opininion. It is too much to assume that wild remarks made by individual students represent the sentiments of the entire body of students of Harvard and Yale. - [Turf, Field and Farm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/16/1883 | See Source »

...whole trouble arises from the fact that the Spirit of the Times has made a "mountain of a mole-hill" in assuming that a few remarks let fall by individual students represent the sentiment of the entire body of students of Harvard and Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/4/1883 | See Source »

...molars immolated many a mole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/1/1882 | See Source »

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