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...Stepney, and in 1901 Bishop of London. It is as Bishop of Stepney, in the east part of London, that the bishop is best known to the London poor. He had been known primarily as a rough and ready member of the Church, ever willing to mingle with the poorest of the slums, without family influence at court, and accustomed to meet all comers in religious controversy in the great meetings in Victoria Park. But suddenly, in 1901, he was raised to a position second in importance only to the archbishoprics of Canterbury and York. His notification came while...
...HAVEN, CONN., Oct. 1, 1907.--The last practice for the Yale football team before the Wesleyan game ended today in a 15-minute scrimmage, in which the university team won, 6 to 0. The forward pass and onside kick proved to be the poorest ground-gainers, the university eleven relying chiefly on straight football for most of the gains. Coy and Jones made 25 and 40-yard runs from the backfield, after receiving kicks. Brides was again in the line...
...choice in his invited guests, yet drove his housemaids to despair by insisting on the admittance of the poorest children in Cambridge to tramp through his study daily or to sit triumphantly in the chair which their little subscriptions had bought for him. This was the man whom we meet to commemorate: this was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...HAVEN, CONN., Sept. 25, 1906. -- Twenty men reported for Yale football practice at the beginning of the season, but that number has been increased to about 40. The back field is fast and clever, but the material for the line is the poorest that has been available in years, all the candidates being very light...
...winning two first places. Captain Wood-bury and Krauss of Pennsylvania were each awarded one first and one second place. On the horizontal bar Evans performed a diversity of tricks with remarkable ease and form. The work on the side horse and at club swinging were unfinished and the poorest features of the meet. On the parallel bars, however, the performance was excellent; and Krauss, Woodbury, and Evans, all showing great skill, won first, second, and third places, respectively. Goodwin did some clever single tumbling...