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Besides this drill a portion of the session was devoted to skeleton drill on long forward passes. A backfield composed of E. T. Putnam '30, S. I. Batchelder '31, T. W. Gilligan '31, and David Guarnaccia '29 with S. C. Burns '29 and F. A. Pickard '29 at ends lossed long passes with another backfield as opposition. Guarnaccia did most of the heaving and showed a noticeable improvement in the matter of accuracy over his earlier work...
...motorbus is stalled, and each passenger tells an inferior Canterbury tale (the title of the book is also from Chaucer). Distinction is reserved for the format of one tale: only those words are set down which Jeremy, dreaming of his love, happens to catch. Stripped of verbosity, the skeleton is a good model for conversational monologists...
...Skeleton plot: a college youth, on the eve of marriage, is informed that one of his old extra-campus acquaintances has given birth to a child of which he is the father. He therefore proposes marriage to the brat's mother who impudently refuses, preferring to study art in Paris. The youth discovers his child in a foundling hospital and steals it; he is pursued by the daughter of a boardinghouse keeper and also by his fiancee. Too soon, it seemed to the audience, weary of their company, Norman Overbeck made amends with his original flame and they were...
...skeleton drill on offensive plays was next in order. Particular emphasis was layed on long forward passes, according to the official announcement. Complete secrecy was maintained concerning the backs who were concentrating on the aerial attack...
...Have ninety cases fossils. Two skulls, many bones, skeleton of gigantic new mammal, possibly larger than Baluchitherium. Humerus big as man's body. Huge titanothere, extraordinary saddle-like skull. New mastodon, spatulate jaw, lower incisors eighteen inches wide...