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...verse in that singing, swinging metrical form found in "The Ingoldsby Legends." Since the subject matter of the poem, however, is not rollicking, but only noisy and tawdry, and since the metrical structure is so uneven that the stanzas seem but rows of rhymed, unaccented sentences, the author, happily unknown, can hardly be said to have attained his goal...
...east wing of Randolph Hall was partially destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. The exact cause is unknown. The fire was discovered shortly before 4 o'clock in the middle room on the ground floor. The flames spread quickly up the staircase, and by the time the fire apparatus had arrived the entire wing was blazing. The occupants of the rooms made their escape with little difficulty, but with no time to save anything. Within less than two hours the third and fourth floors were entirely gutted. The walls separating the rooms were burned away, and in places the slate...
Association football, field and ice hockey, rowing and swimming are the most common sports, the first especially being much more highly developed than in this country. All of these teams are strictly amateur, professional athletics being unknown in Denmark...
...predict the outcome of this evening's game is practically impossible, as the Dartmouth team is more or less of an unknown quantity. It was defeated by Yale, 7 to 2, in its first game, but in the following week came back and defeated Princeton, 6 to 3. Yale barely defeated Princeton last week in a very close game, by the score of 1 to 0. Two days after winning from Princeton, Dartmouth was beaten by Columbia in a slow game, 3 to 2. As the University team defeated Columbia, the advantage would seem to lie with the home team...
...have been so fortunate as to discover nearly a hundred tablets, supposed to be a portion of the archives of King Ahab, written in ink and not engraved on the clay when it was soft. They are in Hebrew characters. One is reported to be a letter from an unknown King of Assyria which, if in Hebrew, is undoubtedly a translation. This discovery will probably be of great importance to students of archaeology...