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...nature and purpose of this book are very well indicated by the full title, which runs as follows: "A Tight Squeeze; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, who on a wager of ten thousand dollars undertook to go from New York to New Orleans in three weeks without money, as a professional tramp." It is a very ingenious and entertaining bit of work, full of characteristic humor, and at the same time containing much valuable information concerning tramp life, which, if true, points to the solution of many a problem of social science. At the same time there is woven...
...Bicycle Club-hopes to have a room in the new Gymnasium...
...Lacrosse Club has received a challenge from the Ravenwood Club of New York...
...Football Team will play Yale, November 8, at New Haven; Princeton, November 15, at Hoboken; and probably the Britannia Club of Canada on November...
...race at New London on the 27th of last June does not need description. The only dramatic situation was at the start, which was made at dusk after a delay of nearly three hours. Then Yale caught the water at the word "two," and this advantage gave her the lead for a second and a half. After that time Harvard pulled steadily away from Yale, and increased the lead during each mile. She won by a difference of one minute and forty-three seconds, making the four miles in 22.15, - a loss upon last year's time, which...