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...eight defeated the Eli bus boys by nearly ten lengths in a quarter mile race. This overwhelming defeat was inflicted on the Blue shell in spite of a flagrant violation in crew etiquette on the part of the Yale coxswain, who in addition to steering his boat its somewhat zigzag course down the Thames, assisted the progress of his shell by using a canoe paddle. It is reported that both camps intend to take the Waiters race seriously this year...
...current taste, which undergraduates are fairly quick to imitate. Byron Cutcheon's "Requiem for the Poet" contains three good lines among a number of bad ones. "April Fool!" by Stuart Ayers is the best contribution in verse, disposing the manners of the day in four effective quatrains printed zigzag down the page. "My Pleasant Celia" is agreeable and neatly versified...
Without a plan of life, people do get on. But it seems fair to say that they rarely amount to much. They drift or zigzag or run in circles. If, then, one needs a plan of life, it can hardly be amiss to devote some part of a college course to thinking...
Hamilton drew blood shortly afterwards, when Captain Bates eluded Crosby and his supporters and shot through Cumings for the visitors first score. The second followed after about three minutes, when Thompson tallied unassisted after a pretty zigzag down the left lane...
...Take a quart of synthetic Gordon gin, ten oranges and some ice; mix; get a refined lady drunk and distress her mother; get drunk yourself; when you and the refined lady are thoroughly intoxicated get into the car and zigzag through the streets until you see a woman wheeling a baby carriage from one curb to the other; then step on the gas. The chances are the carriage will have a baby...