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During the first thirteen days of this year, twelve murderers were executed...
Malaria.Fitz Clarence arrived at Princeton with a light heart and thirteen trunks. Not even the sight of several dozen coffins piled up at the station awaiting shipment could dampen his enthusiasm. He walked briskly up the principal street, and scanned with wonder the long lines of undertakers' shops and brilliant drug-stores that met his eye on every side. A forest of doctors' signs shaded the street and kept off the heat of the sun, while the air was redolent with the pungent odors of the billowy canal...
...five to one, as somebody had told them that Harvard would probably back her team; but the very first Harvard man I struck had the impudence to laugh in my face, and ask me "how I had the cheek to ask for odds when our team had beaten Columbia thirteen goals and six touch-downs to nothing, while Harvard had only beaten her three goals and two touch-downs." Of course I could not talk with a man who argued in such a pig-headed, unreasonable way; so I merely said nothing, but passed on to the next crowd, only...
...Orients of East Boston by 97 to 11. At this time Wright was pitcher, and was looked upon as one of the best in the country; in one game with the Lowells, nine home runs were made. But this year was not an auspicious one, as six out of thirteen games were lost...
...examinations to come in two months, or even in one month. Under our system, work for examinations can hardly be begun more than two weeks beforehand; - seldom then, without neglecting something else, perhaps of more real importance. It was found necessary last year to place the electives in thirteen groups. We suggest that the order and dates of the examination groups be definitively settled and announced with the elective pamphlet. If then a man has three or more examinations running, it will be at his own risk. This is, it is true, a still further limitation of the elective system...