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...others alongside are untouched. As for German prisoners I saw about 50 or 75 in all. It was great sport to see the French soldiers surrounding a German prisoner or two, drawing their knives and slashing off buttons, shoulder straps, insignia--anything for a souvenir. We could look in vain for a hungry or weak looking German to best out stories of hardships. But they looked healthy, and, above all, greatly pleased that they were headed away from the lines and were about to escape from...
...stronger trio. Captain Morgan and Doty not only played a fine defensive game, but they were also Harvard's most brilliant offensive factors. Together they carried the puck down the ice time after time, but Ford, the Princeton goal-keeper, was on the alert and their attacks were in vain. Percy and Curtis, the centres, played a strong game, for the University and although a good many of the former's shots went wild, his fast skating scored the winning goal in the first extra period. Percy seemed a little off his game at the start, but played brilliantly after...
...straight football, using a fake kick formation time after time to start a long skirting dash around the Case ends. The defense at the opening of the game was effective in rolling back the Case attack, but when the substitutes entered the Michigan line-up, Case made two brief, vain spurts with the aid of short forward passes...
...Saturday will be positively the last day on which either lives or photograph sittings will be accepted. For the last time the Committee urges delinquent Seniors to attend to these matters and prevent the recurrence of last year's unfortunate outcome when several neglected Seniors begged the committee in vain to put into the Class Album the lives and pictures they had neglected to hand in on time...
...whose ways of teaching were more partisan than those of today. The most famous man, and real representative of this group, was Mark Hopkins, former president of Williams College. He had the secret of subtle power which the leading writers and great men of that day tried in vain to analyze. With his skill in handling individual men and his direct impressive methods of teaching he truly represented the old-fashioned dignity, simplicity, and reverence which pervaded the class room in the early college days...