Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...best piece of work in the number is Mr. Townsend's "Lord and Lady Bountiful," which has genuine humor and much felicity of detail. Mr. Powel's "up to the minute" story is a wild burlesque, of considerable merit, with a preface which might well be reduced to a title, and a postscript which in spite of its kindly spirit might well be omitted. Mr. Schenck's "Missing Mistletoe" is slow in getting under way, and sudden ever afterwards. Much of the dialogue lacks ease, but, the sudden part is diverting. Mr. Warren's "Lost Christmas" is a story...
...retains the valuable part of his subtlety and delicacy of expression, and shows a desirable gain in clearness of outline and definition of thought, even if the style is not yet quite natural. J. L. Warren's the Crush" is somewhat conventional; F. Schenck's "The Pall of the Wild" is cleverly named, and, like R. M. Arkush's "Sleep Fifteen Minutes after Luncheon," strikes one as much truer to Sophomore human nature than one would like to imagine it. Both are well written. "Ex-Machina," the remaining piece of fiction, is amusing, but like all the stories in this...
...Wild, P F, Ridgely...
...first of the sixth. With one out, Sparks was safe at first on Simons' error. G. Bower knocked a fly to left, Sparks reaching third and Bower second on Dexter's error. Manter knocked a grounder to Slater, who tried to get Sparks out between third and home. A wild throw by Pritchett, however, allowed him to score. McDade contributed a clean single, scoring Bower and Manter. Harvard tied the score in the second half of the same inning...
Yale tried Parsons in the box, but he was wild and Princeton practically won the game in the first inning, while he was pitching. Van Vleck was substituted in the second inning and held Princeton down well. Yale scored in the second inning with Williams' clean hit over second and in the fifth through McLean's error. In the ninth, Yale worked a man around to third, but Dillon made a clever stop of T. Jones' hard drive and prevented a score. Three men on Princeton's team, Cooney, Sides and McLean, were responsible for Princeton's twenty-seven...