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...Crimson still wanted one more score. With Foley, Boston, Gardella, Fearon, Coleman, and Lowry relieving the regulars, the boys almost got the count over 30. But after a 20-yard get-a-way by sophomore Joe, the umpire pillaged the pellet, and the victory march of the fans commenced...
Through these strong-arm tactics, one student came very near to losing an eye through the firing of a tear gas bomb, as the little wax pellet flew out and hit him in the cyclid. This would never have happened, if the mob had been slowly but surely dealt with by proctors and Yard Cops who could have confiscated bursars cards, and broken the affair up in the same manner in which it had been started; namely in the spirit of good fun and lack of venomous malice. The Cambridge police bungled the thing, and they must stand responsible...
...seized his driver, swung like a giant crane, and topped the ball just short of the green. There he grabbed a mashie, took another terrific swipe at the pellet, topped it again and it rolled into...
Described in Bell Laboratories Record last week was a booth switch in the form of a small glass tube containing a pellet of mercury, which is a good conductor of electricity. When the door is open the mercury remains at one end of the tube. Closing the door tilts it so that the mercury rolls to the other end, closing a circuit between two electrodes, lighting the light and starting the fan. This little switch makes no noise, has no moving parts...
...perfectly developed is the art of ball stealing. While some minor disturbance such as boundary flag removal serves as distraction in a corner of the field, an unnoticed performer, armed with a pin, approaches a ball which a player has momentarily left unguarded, pierces a seam, shoves the deflating pellet under his shirt, and at a warning signal everyone stampedes for the fence...