Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale will be the adversary for both the University and Freshman lacrosse teams this afternoon, the veterans meeting at 2 o'clock on Soldiers Field, while the 1929 stick wielders will travel to New Haven to battle the Elis in their own territory...
...changes are anticipated in the rest of the Harvard line-up. Burns and Jones, both Sophomores, seem definitely to have displaced the veteran Ellison in the outfield. Burns has not shown much punch with the stick, but his speed, both on the paths and in pursuing flies have given him an edge on the slower, though reliable, veteran, Ellison has not been able to hit this year, until he regains his batting eye, he will scarcely be able to regain his lost position. In the infield, no changes seem likely for the potent Chauneey has been doing adequate work behind...
...after all this which I really dare you to read. In the meantime I shall take the stick that I am buying on the instalment plan, my hat which is twice as crumpled as Gautier would have ever dared wear his, and eat ham sandwiches at the Wurzhaus with the swagger of one who has not fooled the public for eighteen inches...
Last week such scarred and toughened warriors cursed every stick and stone of the German Reichsgebaude "and every pulpy numskull...
...called. The scholars eat at a separate table in hall, and know few of the commoners even by name; the commoners are divided into "bloods," "aesthetes," and "heartiest," or transversely into hunting men, rowing men, drinking men, and reading men. Estonians, Wykehamists, and Westministers patronize certain colleges, and stick together within each college like the products of our fashionable preparatory schools. I remember dining with a club of seven or eight undergraduates from a college with less than 100 members. none of them knew either of my other two acquaintances there, even by name...