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...fans who pack the Yale Bowl will see about the best exhibition of end play of the year. The Blue backfield can hardly match the Dartmouth quartet, Bench will be tried again at quarterback. He is a defensive player with few equals and an excellent line-plunger, but whether or not he is a quarterback. He is a defensive player with few equals and an excellent line-plunger, but whether or not he is a quarterback remains to be seen. Pond is the only other really dependable back, although Cottle has shown flashes of power...
...Moon-Flower. Here romance rivals roulette at Monte Carlo as a game of chance. The speculative plunger is a penniless law clerk from Hungary who comes with his little hoard for a fling; his prize is the official sweetheart of a wealthy Duke. The starveling dreamer dares to aspire to her love, and the great courtesan yields to him. She hopes to spite the Duke, who has ordered her to Paris to avoid a marital collision with his wife. Love awakens in her frostily brilliant eyes at the youth's touch, but she realizes her arms will...
...medicine, graduated from C. C. N. Y., of which he is now a trustee. When he visited Wall Street and made daily history there he acquired the reputation of "greatest speculator of our generation." Phrases such as "Baruch led the shorts today," or "Baruch, the well-known plunger," appeared regularly in the press...
...possibility of a real swimming pool at the University, like the hopes for a new chemical laboratory when Boylston burns down, or buildings for the Business School, has long been accepted as something to be realized in the dim future when a former champion plunger become millionaire had an attack of generosity. To have the pool within reach, definitely planned and to be ready for use next year, is almost unbelievable...
...berth on Walter Camp's All-American eleven, has been shifted to fullback to bolster up the Colonels' offensive. Now weighing over 235 pounds with remarkable speed and three years' experience, his presence in the backfield should be of material assistance, not only as a line-plunger of known worth, but also as an outstanding interference man. Bartlett, veteran fullback, who has been one of the most successful ground gainers in the preliminary games, has little chance of getting in to the play owing to a recently contracted illness. Lemon will fill Roberts old position at end. He weighs...