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...weeks the discussion revolved about Cheek and Spalding, but about ten days ago the third possible candidate sprang into prominence. His energy, speed, and headlines served to bring him to the fore as a first string possibility. Now, three days before the Princeton battle, Stafford, it appears, is ranked number one of the three pilots...
...last few minutes of the Yale-Brown contest, one Cottle, Yale halfback, sprang lightly away from the last man who tried to tackle him, landed lightly on his feet. In his arms was the ball, 56 yards in front of him was the Brown goal line, nothing between. Until that moment, Brown had been ahead by the hair's breadth of a field goal; after that they were four points behind. Demoralized by so abrupt a slight of fortune, they failed to stop Lindley of Yale from crossing the line again, went home defeated...
Coach Fisher sprang a complete surprise yesterday when he announced that Gamache, who has been playing center all fall, would start-the B. U. game at left end. No inkling of the change had previously escaped the closed Stadium gates...
...most in bringing about a rapproachment with France. Premier MacDonald had no little share, through his overtures, in causing the fall of Poincare, ever whose dead body, politically speaking, Herriot and MacDonald conducted their countries to a new understanding. And from this new understanding, and made possible by it, sprang the London Conference, concerted action on the Dawes Report, and the united stand of England and France for the peace plans at Geneva...
...What do you know about the birth and death of Jamestown, Va.; of Pemaquid, Me.; of the sodhouse towns of Kansas, nothing of which remains but an occasional pile of turf on the prairie? What do you know of all the other hundreds of towns and villages that sprang up in the early days of our country, flourished and perished, leaving here and there a battered church tower, a deserted farmhouse, a buried pavement-and nothing else? Or of Robert Owen's communistic town in Indiana, or Prince Gallitzin's colony in the Pennsylvania mountains, or the California...