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...plunge the Crimson back the Elis stagger and fall and reel...
...Horticultural Hall itself is occupied throughout this week by a charitable fair, the returns were given out in the smaller hall above the main one. Every seat was filled. A large reel of paper was used in announcing the returns and unfortunately the black chalk employed made such slight marks that the figures could hardly be seen by the men at the back of the hall...
...Legend of Hollis Hall," by Percy Wallace MacKaye '97, is a rhyme of some fifteen pages after the manner of "T' was the Night Before Christmas." The tale is a fanciful bit of work. It is the story of a freshman of the class of 1798 who "with heavy reel on tipsy heel," staggers out from Boston to be enticed out of his room by grave yard spooks who lead him a wild dance and conclude by tumbling him into the pump trough "as limp as a lump," "while one young Vandal keeps plying the handle." The rhyme suggests...
...Shade." Now, this is absurd, as absurd as the assertion in one of your journals that your Mr. Evarts "was too old for a senator," and that he "was too old to change his mind." Why, your new senator is Billy Evarts, Evarts, who used to reel off Adams's Latin Grammar at the Boston Latin School,-only a few years ago, and we are his contemporaries. I contend that these charges are libelous, both as against Mr. Evarts and the overseers. Still, there are younger alumni, and you can, if you see fit, in your next election, drop some...
...crimson handkerchief, and do not dislocate my elbows in walking, I don't see how she knew. "Been a-fishin'?" was her next remark. I said I had, and, to make conversation, produced my bass. She examined them critically, and announced that though "mighty mean little ones, they were reel bass, - acanthopterygious fish, of the genus perca, so called from their dark color...