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Jesse Lynch Williams. Princeton Stories

Princeton Stories

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THE WINNING OF THE CANE

THE MADNESS OF POLER STACY

THE HAZING OF VALLIANT

HERO WORSHIP

THE RESPONSIBILITY OF LAWRENCE

FIXING THAT FRESHMAN

THE SCRUB QUARTER-BACK

WHEN GIRLS COME TO PRINCETON

THE LITTLE TUTOR

COLLEGE MEN

THE MAN THAT LED THE CLASS

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Jesse Lynch Williams

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The next instant, while the sophomore was trying to better his advantage, Hill quietly turned, slipped out of the perilous position, and drew himself up close to the sophomore's body. He lay there panting, while his coachers cried, joyfully: "Good one, Hill! good one!" and his classmates left off feeling sick at their stomachs, and began to cheer him by name. This he did not hear.

He had been taken by surprise at the fall, but now he was entirely alive to what he was about. Every nerve was at tension, each muscle set at hair-trigger. There was just one thing in all the world to him now, and that was the cane. And when, a moment later, Parker began a quick series of furious jerks, back and forth and sidewise, Hill said, half aloud: "No, you don't, old man," and smiled confidently to himself as he felt how firm the cane was in his hand.

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