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...such an undignified manifestation of approval in these days of gentle manners was considered an unpardonable breach of etiquette and decorum. But the players - a student of 1885 would not have recognized the brawny athletes of his day in these aesthetic youths. Each player wore a dress coat of spotless black, a shirt whose bosom glistened with the starch of Brines' Troy Laundry, knickerbockers of the most approved Oscar Wilde pattern, and in his hand carried a crush hat. The two sides were distinguished by a bit of ribbon in the button-hole of each man; the Yale...
...University Crew, rowing in the following order: Bow, Mumford, '84; 2, Sawyer, '83; 3, Belshaw, '83; 4, Gilman, '85; 5, Perkins, '84; 6, Hammond, '83 (capt.); 7, Clarke, '84; stroke, Curtis, '83. The class crew weights were used. The crew made a fine show in their new and spotless costumes and the fact that the men were carefully graded in height from bow to stern gave them a remarkably even and regular appearance as they took their seats on the weights. The general form of the crew is better than ever before at this season of the year...
...snow-white cuffs, once spotless and pure...
...return to our muttons. One bright August morning Diggles, arrayed in his spotless tennis suit, strolled nonchalantly down the hotel piazza and joined a group of young men and maidens sitting in the sun. His girl was among them. She was sitting on the railing holding on to a post. Diggles wished he were a post, but he soon banished the thought as unworthy of him. Patting on his most winsome smile he proposed an expedition to a neighboring sawmill. Ah, who could have foreseen the consequence of this little trip? But Diggles was a deep, deep...
...doctrine, but also all Unitarians and Universalists, who claim, and justly claim, to be Christians; perhaps not as good Christians as those called Evangelical, but still Christians. It is to be hoped that the society will reconsider its recent action, and open its doors to all whose characters are spotless, without reference to their beliefs or disbeliefs in matters that have little connection with humility, patience, and love...