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...alarm from Box 69 last evening attracted a number of men to Porter's Station with the usual disappointing result with which an alarm for a fire in Cambridge is usually attended...
...days the window-seats were merely long boxes with lids, used to store articles in. Said student having an antipathy to the proctor who roomed beneath, was accustomed to squeeze piggy's ears and make him squeal whenever said proctor was engaged in the study of the classics. The result would be a rush by the proctor for the student's rooms, where the student was to be found studying (?), peacefully seated on his window-seat. Piggy, in the mean time had been deposited beneath, and no sound disturbed the tranquillity of the scene. On the departure of the hated...
...suffering from ill-health, hired an old lady living near by to cook him regularly some hasty pudding, thinking that this diet would be beneficial to him. As he seemed to thrive under this treatment, a number of his classmates tried the same experiment. The result was that the dish grew in popularity and the "Pudding Men," as they were styled, met each evening in the room of one of the members, where plenty of hasty pudding was provided. At first no thoughts of a regular club existed in the minds of the participants, but later a large and thriving...
...Captain Cook rowed on the University Crew in 1872, which was defeated. He then came to the conclusion that he could obtain some good points from the English University crews and accordingly paid a visit to Oxford and Cambridge in '73, with a view to learning their stroke. The result of his visit was the famous "Cook stroke," a combination of his own ideas and those of the Englishmen. He has worked faithfully with the crews since his graduation, and has done more to raise the standard of rowing at Yale than any other man. The dinner was in every...
...Lowell three times. The audience was partisan and disgusted with the game, and several times pushed into the diamond and stopped the playing. At one time, during the sixth inning, there was a long intermission for a fight between two egotistic and excited bystanders; cause of fight unknown, ditto, result." All this, though, had the effect of heightening the excitement of the Harvard contingent, when they saw the Lowell audience making every effort to bully them out of the game. Their enthusiasm at the end was boundless, and when they finally realized that the score, Harvard, 39, Lowell, 28, meant...