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...single when Rogers just failed to make a diving catch of his short fly. Lewis looped a single to short center that Jenkins just failed to reach. Campbell made a good play on Dignan's fiery grounder. Cooper and Lewis moving along a base. Caldwell, still smarting from the sting of his beating in the first Harvard game, went in to pinch hit for Foster. He missed a healthy swing at a Spalding slow ball, but connected with the next one for two bases, and the score was tied. A moment later Caldwell romped home on a single by Dinsmore...
...paper once described as "written by cads to be read by snobs." He bought the Post from the Countess of Bathurst, who inherited it in 1908 and ran it until now. Under her, the Morning Post became famous for the impartiality of its news and for the poisonous sting of its editorials. It was rumored that a lawyer was employed to keep its editorials from libel. The paper has always been "the friend of the labouring man and the enemy of Labour." At Liberals it jeers...
...orchestral dilemma. (P. 15.) The invisible sting of death...
...Whether" by the chaste Vesta Volodia is out of the Russian spirit, though in itself a good story. In this it is robbed of the gentle sting of parody. "Silent as a cat he rose to his feet and swung his great two-handed sword over her head." This is romance, not realism. And I feel sure Vesta's compatriots wouldn't let their sense of romance run away with them after her fashion...
...century, and their passing is often but of momentary interest. The removal of Nolen's Tutoring School from the old familiar premises, however, will cause more than one pang of sentimental regret; but the announcement that Little Hall is to be converted into a Freshman dormitory will take the sting out of this momentary grief. Although it will accomodate but sixty men its acquisition comes in the light of a gift from the gods...