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Both goal posts were paraded in triumph through the three miles of mud and puddles between the Stadium and the Yale Club immediately after the snake dance in the Stadium. One of the uprights of the goal posts was slung horizontally across the second floor balcony of the Club. The remaining pieces were taken inside the club for future...
...protection of--er--the public, and are reserved to Allan Pinkerton's brave boys. If things had worked according to schedule the time poor old Louis had the disagreement with his subjects, the Jacquerie would not have had arms. And I suppose the first Paleolithic genius who slung a rook with a twisted grass rope had no idea that the gentleman in the adjoining cave would get wise to the trick. No; we should not delude ourselves. We must grow accustomed to the military plagiarism of the "insurgents"; they have no sense of honor--never having attended Harvard...
...Buell's play and the speed exhibited by Fitts seemed to galvanize a dispirited attack into action. It was the Irony of fate that Roper saw his charges robbed of victory by a forward pass that outwitted his secondary defense. The Princeton back over whose head the pass was slung was Cleaves, recently substituted on account of his excellent breaking up of forwards against the Navy and West Virginia, a department at which Murrey did not excel...
...game a year ago between the first eleven and Technology, both played on the Union Grounds. In last year's game, Mr. Holden tripped in a hole and sprained his ankle, not getting into good trim again all the season. Yesterday, Mr. Nichols, a most promising player, was slung into the home plate of the diamond, a great block of marble, and badly hurt. Not only that, there was every chance offered the men of being severely hurt; and it was only that Providence which watches over somnambulists and Harvard students that kept them from embracing...
...instant. In fractures, great care must be taken that the broken edge of bone shall not protrude through the skin. In all such cases, no regard should be paid to clothing; it should be cut off immediately, and not taken off. An injured arm must be both slung and tied firmly to the chest. In fractures, a joint is made; in dislocations, a joint is taken away. This affords a rough diagnosis. splints are used to prevent movement in the joints. Burns and frost-bites are very serious. In the former, the clothing must be lifted off most carefully...