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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...
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...
...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...
...sprig of mignonette...
...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...