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...contest for seventh, however, the brush at the finish proved unprofitable for the University. Watters had been up with the best of them during the opening chapters, but had found his first race of the season not so easy after the half-way mark. He had been having it nip and tuck with Captain Holt, but it was only over the final distance that the M. I. T. leader, uncovering a perfectly timed sprint, swept past with a second's lead to finish...
...next two games Dixon steadied down and, although. Wakefield showed a fine style of play, Dixon was able to hold him in check. The pace was too fast to be long maintained, however, and Dixon had to concede Wakefield the fourth game, making the score-even. The fifth was-nip and tuck up to 9-8 with Wakefield in the lead, but here he unloosed several clever shots which won him the game and match...
...attack the Crimson men found it difficult at first to escape the over-taking Westminster forwards, whose speed often enabled them to nip the University offence at the very outset Then Coach Claflin's players started their passing game. Several times beautiful passes directly in front of the Westminster goal seemed on the point of resulting in tallies. Once in the third period Walker, dashing down the right alley, whisked the puck straight over to Owen, quite alone before the Westminster cage. The latter shot the disc by Reaume in completion of the best piece of team-play...
...professor from the platform, no one would receive less than "A" in any of his courses. The night watchman has only to be "wished" somewhere else, to make burglary mere child's play And so it goes. The fate of the world is easy to see. Let us therefore nip the evil in the bud; let it be unlawful to wish, will, think, agitate, or otherwise employ the human mind. Then, and only then, will this fearful disruption of civilization be averted...
...fame of Dean Briggs' anecdote is now extended well beyond college circles. In a recent issue of the "Globe" the leading editorial quoted it (with the original modest fifty dollar stakes now swollen to several hundred!) as the "classic example of the most efficient way to nip threatened blackmail in the bud. The little story appears to be as susceptible of wide application as many an ancient parable. Harvard is to be congratulated for having presided at its birth...