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...ball through their opponent's line, and after a brilliant run Peace carried it over the line. Yale, however, disputed the touchdown on the ground that Peace lost his hold of the ball before touching it down, and the referee allowed their claim. Soon after Poe made the prettiest run of the game for Princeton, and carried the ball almost to Yale's line, but could score no point...
...seen the play of three of the competing teams in the inter - collegiate championship matches, and now await the event of the fourth. On election day the exhibition game between the Columbia and Princeton elevens afforded an opportunity of seeing the "coming champions" from Princeton do some of the prettiest field work in strategic play ever shown on the Polo Grounds, and last Saturday the strength of the Harvard team was exhibited in their opening match with the Columbias. In these two contests the Columbias opened play rather badly, but in their last game they rallied very creditably...
...Savoy Theatre, in London, is said to have the prettiest drop-curtain of any theatre in the world. It is of white satin, elaborately quilted by hand, and cost...
Saug Centre was, I was quite sure, a station on the Davenport, Dubuque & Iowa R. R., between the towns of West Saug and North Saug. It had its "prettiest girl in town;" its half a dozen churches, with the attendant meetings of the "Gleaners" every Wednesday afternoon; its church sociables, known among the Gentiles as "tea-fights" and "muffin-scrambles," and all the other necessary opportunities for gossip kindly provided by every such institution with "a vigorous religious life...
...Lyceum; when Holmes and Motley wrote for the Collegian; and when such a poet as Mr. Lowell used to compose verses for Harvardiana. And now, says Snodkins, not a single famous name on any of our college papers! We are very witty now-a-days, and we write the prettiest of verses and the staidest and wisest of editorials, but where can be found a grain of that Attic salt that flavors the pages of the Harvard Register, of 1827, for example! There is to be found the freshness of sophomoric thought in all its glory; ideas and language that...