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Professional Golf Championship (unofficial). George Gadd, by trying to win a little too furiously, was allowing Arthur Compston, Manchesterian 6 ft. 3 in. giant, to just keep his thwacking rights. Came a thoughtful lady and set a sprig of heather in the giant's buttonhole. Compston, responsive to charms and tokens, forthwith played better golf; Gadd seemed suddenly to go to pot. The giant thwacked his ball into a cup containing ?1,040, the News of the World prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Oct. 5, 1925 | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

Dancing around Rebellion,--now called 'Liberty' Tree continued. Each Senior plucked a sprig or flower from a wreath to keep as a memento of college life. With the growth of the University, however, the scramble for flowers took on the nature of a riot, and consequently, about thirty years ago, many of the practices of Class Day had to be radically changed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLASS DAY | 5/17/1919 | See Source »

...worth looking over anyway. The front cover is rather impressive, by the way--much better in its colors of red and blue and its unusual theme than a "Merry Xmas" affair, done in the orthodox red and green. Not a holly leaf in sight, either. You take the laurel sprig for this num- ber, Lampy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Number Unique | 12/12/1917 | See Source »

...sprig of mignonette...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCIETY TROPHIES. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

...that I was fully aware of the magnitude of the evil. And it is to pray for a last chance of reclamation for myself and my companions in distress, that I write this article. When the weed of indiscriminate charity becomes so vigorous as to crowd a decent fellow-sprig out of existence, the time were come, it would seem, for a little interference. So much humbug has crept into the charity of to-day, that "the greatest of these three" is at war with the chief purposes of a higher education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR THE DOWNTRODDEN. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

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