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From his boyhood, Mr. Chaillu said, he had been fond of animals, and had then learned how to preserve them. He was eager to go into the wildest parts of the world, and when seventeen, set sail for Africa...
Andover has seventeen of her graduates on college teams...
...lenses, which were made by Clark of Cambridge, are twenty-four inches in diameter, the focal length of the combination being seven feet three inches. A photographic plate fourteen by seventeen inches will be used...
...field the team played well, but at bat they left much to be desired. There seems to be no good reason why they should have fallen back into the pernicious habit of knocking balls into the air. Twenty-eight times the ball was hit, and seventeen times it went into the air. This is altogether bad and needs permanent rectifying...
...juniors yesterday at every point. They played almost a perfect fielding game, and Ames pitched excellently, allowing but five hits, with a total of nine, all singles except two triples by the same man, Hapgood. On the other hand, the freshmen made ten hits with a total of seventeen. Paine was the only man not to get a hit and O'Malley's being for three bases. Not a single freshman struck out. For the juniors, Linfield did the best fielding, having seven chances and accepting them all, making two or three phenominal plays. Frothingham made one fine catch...