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_Week II_ _Monday_--(a) Review past errors. Queries. (b) Assign work on Sections II and III of this chapter. _Tuesday_--Program on Section II. Queries. _Wednesday_--Program on Section III. Oral Composition _Thursday_--Dictation of Models. Written Composition and Reviews. _Friday_--Dictation of Models. Public Speaking. VIII. Suggested Reading Thomas Hughes's _Tom Brown at Rugby_; Homer's _Iliad_, Book XXIII; Virgil's _AEneid_, Book V. IX. Model II. NEW YORK, October 9, 1913.--Cornelius McGillicuddy's Murder Association, incorporated, convened at the Polo grounds this afternoon, transacted routine business, and adjourned. On motion of Brother Edward Collins, supported by Brother J. Franklin Baker, and carried by acclamation, it was voted to resume the task of tearing the hide off the Giants. Messrs. Collins and Baker were appointed a special committee of two to carry out the work and seven others were assigned to assist them. After the meeting refreshments consisting of singles, doubles, triples, and home runs were served; and a good time was had by all, excepting John J. McGraw and his employes and friends numbering upward of 25,000. The latter class was unanimous in declaring the Mackmen a bunch of vulgar, common persons who play professional baseball for a living and thus are not entitled to associate with amateurs, such as some of the New York players. To get to the point of things, Philadelphia had what some of the fans called "one of them afternoons." There is no use trying to describe all the details of this so-called contest, for it is demoralizing to the young to see such things in print. Many criminals have confessed on the scaffold that they got their start watching the Athletics assault some honest young pitcher who was trying to support his aged mother. They say that, if the Macks can get away with their rough work, anything ought to go. Eight to two was the score to-day, if anybody cares. We can't just figure out where New York got the two, but it was there on the score board and must have happened. Also there is a well-grounded belief that McGraw has subsidized the scoreboard boy so that he chea
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