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...Creed Was Singular, His Wives Plural The Life. Bulrushes. Long after, it was "remembered" that the heavens had resounded slightly and that a star had twinkled on June 1, 1801, when Brigham Young was born in Whitingham, Vt. Similar signals of divine pleasure are unrecorded for subsequent years when the indigent Young family drifted about western New York farms. The boy Brigham chopped, plowed, dug, sowed, lucky if in pants, seldom shod...
...curious reader (I use the singular advisedly), are thoroughly familiar with the external aspects of your college. With the exception of the Geology Museum there is no building on your campus into which the inquisitive Freshman has not poked his eager nose by the first of October. You know every hole in the sidewalks of Spring Street. You call the open-handed shopkeepers by their first names. You say, "Hi, Toughey!" to every one you pass on the street. You know all the professors at least by name. You have definite places to eat your meals...
...Freshman team is not so likely to emerge victorious from this afternoon's play. Coach Cowles has been handicapped by a singular lack of tennis material in this year's Freshman class and has had to struggle along as best he might. Only yesterday two new men, J. L. Fickinger and Asaph Churchill, were raised to the team...
...final reason for this singular distribution of intellectual opportunities lies in the professors themselves. It is their natural desire to teach the advanced, the enthusiastic, and the mentally alert. Unfortunately the average student does not usually acquire so serious an interest until after his Sophomore year...
...University Band has been suffering a singular privation for several months. It was learned yesterday that the downpour which ruined so many objects at the Harvard-Yale football game last fall was the cause of reducing the musical scores from which the band was attempting to play to a condition of illegibility, and in some cases of disintegration...