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...greeted me vivaciously and seemed possessed of all his pre-War vigor. . . . His handsome white beard becomes him well, and he walks with the erect alertness of a man in good health He still retains all of his old dignity. It is ridiculous to picture him as 'the woodsman of Doom.' He is not the sort of man to chop down trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Doom | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...Riding Harvard was paid a visit by a new kind of grandmother, a Princeton tiger thinly disguised beneath popular betting odds. "The better to eat you with, my dear," quoth the tiger, leaping out of the locker room and baring its chief fangs, Backs Slagle and Williams. No doughty woodsman bobbed up at the psychological moment to save the heroine and for a gruesome hour or so the sound of munching was heard on Soldiers' Field. At twilight, an autopsy was performed which revealed Harvard's condition as the most serious she has ever been in after a meeting with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 17, 1924 | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

Died. Andrew Baker, 87, famed Adirondacks' woodsman. Robert Louis Stevenson spent the Winter of 1887-88 at Mr. Baker's cottage which later became a literary shrine at which the annual meetings of the Stevenson Society of America are now held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 10, 1924 | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

...Trafford, '89, has been elected boating correspondent of the CRIMSON in place of F. C. Woodsman, '88, resigned, and T. W. Balch, '90, has been elected cricket correspondent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/21/1888 | See Source »

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