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Centre College, without its cornerstones, Weaver or Roberts, in its line-up, was shorn of much of its recent glory when it was literally lynched--as occasionally happens in Georgia--by the "Golden Tornado" of Georgia Tech. The score tells the completeness of the route...
There will probably be a period during which prohibition will not be absolute and alcohol will not be wholly shorn of its powers. It is possible that the members of the clubs have provided against an immediately dry future. There may be for a time club dinners that will be reminiscent of the past. But the skeleton will be obtrusive at the feast. No one who drinks now can be happy; no one who lives on his capital can be happy. Enjoyment of alcoholic drink depends on its being ungrudging. The days are gone when a man will offer...
...this afternoon. Time was when this event was the occasion of the gayest scene of the year along the Boston river front; in those days each class hired some kind of a craft which was suitably decorated, on which the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. Though the races are today shorn of some of their external glory their real value remains. They are still a part of the broadening tendency toward general athletics...
...sweeping way he thought senseless and characteristic only of a very shallow thinker. Certainly all the luxury with which Harvard's sons had been lavished, did not abate one whit the patriotic ardor they showed in the late war. When a test came, Harvard men were revealed, not shorn of their manliness, but armed with full strength and vigor...
...most tastefully arranged. The pirate captain arrives with Constance, who is presently followed by her companion, Cherry, who has come aboard to be near her mistress. Dawdle and Rattles come aboard in disguise, bent on rescuing Constance. They have been informed of her capture by Rooney, porter of the Shorn Lamb, who has been a witness of most of the scenes of the preceding act. They join the pirates, and after being duly sworn in, concoct a plan of escape. Meanwhile the girls who were to have been Constance's bridesmaids appear on the deck in bathing dresses, having swum...