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CHAPTER II

NEWCOMERS AT THE ACADEMY

"Dan Baxter has escaped!" repeated Dick. "That is news indeed. Does your father give my particulars?"

"He says it is reported that the jailer was sick and unable to stop Dan."

"Humph! Then they must have had some sort of a row," put in Tom. "Well, it does beat the nation how the Baxters do it. Don't you remember how Arnold Baxter escaped from the hospital authorities last year?"

"Those Baxters are as slick as you can make them," said Frank. "I've been thinking if Dan would dare to show himself around Putnam Hall."

"Not he!" cried Larry. "He'll travel as far can and as fast as he can."

"Perhaps not," mused Dick. "I rather he will hang around and try to help his father out of prison."

"That won't help him, for the authorities will be on strict guard now. You know the stable door is always locked after the horse is stolen."

At this there was a general laugh, and when it ended a loud roll of a drum made the young cadets hurry to the front of the parade ground.

"Fall in, Companies A and B!" came the command from the major of the battalion, and the boys fell in. Dick was now a first lieutenant, while Tom and Sam were first and second sergeants respectively.

As soon as the companies were formed they were marched around the Hall and to the messroom. Here they were kept standing in a long fine while George Strong came to the front with half a dozen new pupils.
1. Did someone flee?
2. Who was that?
3. Who was the informant?
4. Did the warden try to stop?
5. What was Frank's impression of the escapee?
6. Why Dan would try to be around?
7. Is his father also imprisoned?
8. Did they think he will attempt to release him?
9. Did they think the bosses will be alert?
10. Were they amused about the situation?
11. What is Dicks rank now?
12. What about other two?
13. How many military companies are there?
14. Do they have any designation?
15. What are their companies called?
16. Who would be ahead of them?
17. Are they doing any drills?
18. Then where are they?
19. Are they just stationed there?
20. What are they doing then?

Numbered answers:
1. yes
2. Dan Baxter
3. Dick.
4. yes
5. unknown
6. He'll travel as far can and as fast as he can."
7. yes
8. no
9. yes
10. yes
11. Dick was now a first lieutenant
12. first and second sergeants
13. Two
14. cadets
15. A and B
16. Dick, Tom, and Sam
17. no
18. Hall and to the messroom
19. no
20. a parade

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Baseball statistics play an important role in evaluating a player's and/or team's progress.

Since the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and normally players act individually rather than performing in clusters, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and statistics. Statistics have been kept for professional baseball since the creation of the National League and American League, now part of Major League Baseball.

Many statistics are also available from outside of Major League Baseball, from leagues such as the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players and the Negro Leagues, although the consistency of whether these records were kept, of the standards with respect to which they were calculated, and of their accuracy varied.

The practice of keeping records of player achievements was started in the 19th century by Henry Chadwick. Based on his experience with the sport of cricket, Chadwick devised the predecessors to modern-day statistics including batting average, runs scored, and runs allowed.

Traditionally, statistics such as batting average (the number of hits divided by the number of at bats) and earned run average (the average number of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings) have dominated attention in the statistical world of baseball. However, the recent advent of sabermetrics has created statistics drawing from a greater breadth of player performance measures and playing field variables. Sabermetrics and comparative statistics attempt to provide an improved measure of a player's performance and contributions to his team from year to year, frequently against a statistical performance average.
1. When did the record keeping for players first start?
2. By who?
3. What sport was he familiar with?
4. Did he keep track of batting averages and runs scored?
5. What else?
6. What is the number of hits divided by the number of at bats?
7. And the average number of earned runs allowed by who per nine innings is the earned run average?
8. Are those stats the most popular?
9. Of which sport?
10. What's the new way to get statistics from more player measures?
11. Is that a more accurate way to judge a player's abilities?
12. Does baseball have built in breaks to it?
13. Are the players individually acting or in groups?
14. Does that make it harder or easier for record keeping?
15. Can you get records of the Negro Leagues?
16. Are they completely accurate?
17. Was the way they were calculated a problem?
18. Name one league that is now part of the Major League.
19. And another?

Numbered answers:
1. in the 19th century
2. Henry Chadwick
3. cricket
4. yes
5. runs allowed
6. batting average
7. yes
8. yes
9. baseball
10. sabermetrics
11. yes
12. yes
13. individually
14. easier
15. yes
16. no
17. yes
18. American League
19. the National League

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Boston (CNN)It was 9:35 on a slow Thursday night in April 2013 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Chief John DiFava was about to call it quits. On his way out, he saw one of his rookie swing-shift officers, Sean Collier, sitting in his cruiser. He stopped to say goodnight.

"I chatted with him for a few minutes. I told him to be safe and I left," the chief told a crowded courtroom on Wednesday. He estimated the conversation lasted three, maybe four minutes.

"Did you ever see Sean Collier alive again after that?" Assistant U.S. Attorney William Weinreb asked.

"I did not."

Less than an hour later, Collier lay bleeding in his patrol car after being ambushed and shot in the head. His car door was open, and his foot was lodged between the gas and brake pedals.

DiFava and other officers, assisted by surveillance videos, 911 callers and a lone bicyclist who happened to be passing by, recounted Collier's last moments in the death penalty trial of admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The bicyclist, MIT mathematics Ph.D. candidate Nathan Harman, pointed to Tsarnaev in court and identified him as the man with "a big nose," who he saw leaning into Collier's squad car. He said Tsarnaev appeared to be alone.

Tsarnaev, who was 19 at the time, does not dispute that he was present when Collier was killed on the evening of April 18, nor does he deny that he participated in the bombings three days earlier that killed three people and hurt more than 240 others.
1. What time was it?
2. What day of the week?
3. Night or day?
4. Who is Assistant U.S. Attorney
5. Who did he talk about
6. What month was it?
7. What year?
8. What city?
9. Was John DiFava a Police Chief
10. Where?
11. Who is Sean Collier
12. Is he dead?
13. Who is Nathan Harman
14. Does he bicycle?
15. Who is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?
16. How many people did he injure?
17. How many people did he kill?
18. What was the date of that?
19. How old was the bomber?
20. What was the date when Collier died?
Numbered answers:
1. 9:35
2. Thursday
3. night
4. William Weinreb
5. Sean Collier
6. April
7. 2013
8. Boston
9. yes
10. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11. a police office
12. yes
13. an MIT mathematics Ph.D. candidate
14. yes
15. the Boston Marathon bomber
16. more than 240
17. three
18. April 15
19. 19
20. April 2013