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...Society. And he left some of the best ones-perhaps those his office did not need, however. So what I write to call to the notice of your readers is that the Society has been going on its uppers, deprived of a superintendent and of old employees at one swoop, with nothing to keep it running but its routine and the organization Mr. Waterman had worked out for it in the past. And I would not have your readers forget that the directors could not help all this; and that Mr. Waterman, as business men and business methods...
...argument yet produced in favor of more light late in the evening in the halls of the main buildings is a little incident that happened there not long since. An upper classman while coming down stairs from a late recitation rushed up to a co-ed and with a swoop of his right arm encircled her neck, saying, "Hello Bill, old boy. How de do." When the time for red fire and slow music came he might have been seen hanging from the window sill of the 4th story hall blushing like a house afire.-[Michigan Chronicle...
...enormous figure, all white, with outstretched arms that seemed ready to clasp us in their embrace. I was never a believer in ghosts, but then I had never met one face to face before; and coming upon this terrible presence at night in the woods, seemingly ready to swoop down on us, took every bit of scepticism...
...that occasion (by the only man afloat who refused to obey the managers' regulations) failed to result in loss of life was little less than a miracle. Equally astonishing was the good luck of a year later, when the squall of wind forced the impatient fleet of sailboats to swoop down in the wake of the long-delayed crews, and when it seemed inevitable to those of us in the midst of it that death must also be swooping down in the darkness...
Down o'er the hushed plains, with seething swoop...