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Photographic candidates will be as signed work in the darkroom and office and will be sent out for required and scoop photographs...
Perhaps the most famous of the CRIMSON'S "extras" was published in 1909, when President Eliot resigned. This was a gigantic "scoop" engineered entirely by the President of the CRIMSON, A. G. Cable '09, and the Managing Editor. The news was put into the hands of the public at noon when newsboys ran through the Square proclaiming that President Eliot's 40-year term had ended. The CRIMSON had scooped the world...
...Eskimo sailor had deserted in mid-Arctic, taking a gun and scoop shovel. Signal lights were left out for him and after several days mushing in the icepack he returned, sadder, wiser...
...Ryan led the national champion up to the net with short chops, trapped her with deep chops to the baseline, won the set, 6-3. In the next set, she again carried the attack to Miss Wills. Her low, back-bouncing chops on the wet court made the champion scoop up returns as if with a trowel, kept her lumbering from baseline to net until she was breathless. Miss Ryan chopped right, chopped left, chopped off Miss Wills' head...
...conquests far bloodier than Pizarro's. At the winter fiestas you see them, these modern conquistadors. Slim young daredevils from the bullrings of Spain, they strike attitudes of high insolence before holiday crowds, exacting homage for a flick of a cloak and a deft, scornful sword-jab. They scoop in gold fortunes that would dwarf Pizarro's little pilferings. They laugh aloud at the rich sport of it. They wave gay adieux as they are feted to their ships...