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...grey hairs but no bad legs or sore arms, stayed right in the game, with the score tied at 4-all. L. J. Young '23 up to this time had engaged Howard Whitmore '29, favored to start the first Yale game, on even terms until he was relieved by Wilmot Whitney '16, off whom the undergraduates, aided by an error and two base-on-balls, scored the winning brace of runs...
...Dean Wilmot B. Mitchell of Bowdoin College, in the remarks which are at Bowdoin regularly attached to the report of the President, cautions the American college against surrender to the Oxford movement. If the movement be foreign in operation as well as origin to the educational idea, American style, it should be stamped out immediately, for no disease has proven more contagious. But at Harvard, which may be considered the seat of heresy, the weaknesses of transplanting have proved to be not hereditary from the native soil of England, but peculiar to a loam that has been badly sanded...
...judges waited eagerly, hoping that Mrs. Rosie Bevan (nee Wilmot) would put in an appearance. Mrs. Bevan, a peasant of Kent, England, claims to be "world's ugliest woman." In her heyday she won many a "quid" (pound Sterling) in British ugly matches; traveled thousands of miles with the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey circus, in whose sideshow she sat between Carrie Holt, "fat, fair and frivolous," and the Armless Wonder. Four times a mother, Mrs. Bevan used to affect white lace hats, woolen mittens, high laced shoes...
...Wilmot Whitney '16 was the last pitcher to win a verdict for the University over Dartmouth. In the game with the Alumni last Wednesday, it was this same twirler who pitched so effectively after the first inning for the graduates against the University nine...
Briggs of Yale was third in 28.15, a minute and seven seconds behind the leaders. He was followed at some distance by Tracy, Yale, and Gallagher, Princeton. Cutcheon, Chapin, and Ryan scored sixth, seventh, and eighth for the University. Cureton and Wilmot, taking ninth and tenth, completed the winning five placers for Yale. Swede, the University's fifth man, placed twelfth...