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...Eton has its "fives" (a handball game played between the buttresses and against the walls of Eton chapel), so St. Mark's has its "cloister ball." Each evening after supper students swarm to the open cloister which bounds the fourth side of St. Mark's brick-and-timber quadrangle. A tennis ball is thrown across one of the iron tie-rods in the cloister roof, the object being to strike the succeeding tie-rod, catch the ball on the rebound. Historic are St. Marksmen who make a perfect score of 15 hits in 15 throws. Founded mainly with...
That was Paul Bunyan, legendary hero of the logging camps. In his honor, woodsmen from the Northwest camps meet in Paul Bunyan Canyon, near Longview, Wash., for their annual "Rolleo," a carnival featuring the things Paul Bunyan liked to do?log-rolling, timber-topping, axe-twirling, Gargantuan eating, whopper-telling...
...little licking flame, high up on the wooded slopes of Mount Tamalpais above San Francisco's Golden Gate, one day last week, started eating through timber dried by months of drought. A strong wind whistled to its aid. Soon Mount Tamalpais' long north and east slopes were ablaze...
...bonds and other kinds of property for many years, making full or partial payments on same just as other men do, but in such transactions so far as I knew dealt only with reputable brokers. . . ." Among the kinds of property he had sold Bishop Cannon listed "houses and lots, timber stumpage, coal, cotton and bank stocks and stocks and bonds listed on the New York Stock Exchange." He said other brokers of his were his personal acquaintances, Col. John P. Branch and Langbourne M. Williams of Richmond, "both Christian gentlemen...
...turnout of men was good and Coach Kershaw started early to mould a team out of what was largely green timber. He had captain A. M. Stollmeyer '30, stellar back, to build around and soon had shaped up an eleven which managed to give a creditable account of itself through a hard schedule...