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...Hill, over fences and railroad banks and through an unpleasant marsh, where all, hares as well as hounds, got wet feet. Coming towards home on a straight road, the way was clear enough until suddenly the scent was found to stop without any bags being left. After a diligent search, one of the bags was found where it had been left a little to the rear. The other had been stolen by boys and the scent scattered on a lapse trail which had deceived the hounds. The break was a mile and a quarter from home, just over the Somerville...
...from one another. The player, close to one of the posts, throws a large ball towards the other party, who awaits the ball to send it far with a small stick with which he is armed. The other players then run to look after the ball, and while this search is going on the party who struck it with the stick runs incessantly from post to post, marking one for each run. It is plain, then, that it is to the advantages of the party who strikes the ball to make it jump very far. Sometimes it tumbles into...
...Julius Caesar appeared." In the interest of Russian "law and order, " it was forbidden too at that time to paint Nero and Caligula in anything but rosy colors. Even now France in its Revolutionary period is a blank to us; and as for Sclav history as well might we search for truth there as for honesty in the Government service...
...result of their investigations is embodied in the address of Prof. Hoffman in the following statement "that all efforts to find a substitute for the Classical Languages, whether in Mathematics, in the Modern Languages, or in the Natural Sciences, have been hitherto unsuccessful; that, after long and vain search, we must always come back finally to the result of centuries of experience, that the surest instrument that can be used in training the mind of youth is given us in the study of the languages, the literature, and the works of art of classical antiquity." Speaking further on the subject...
...rooms are in our college buildings on account of the darkness of the entries and ignorance of their exact location. This is particularly true of visitors, who are frequently compelled to wander all over a building and go to considerable trouble before finding the particular room they are in search of. Now it seems to me to be a perfectly practicable scheme for the men on each floor to contribute a small sum apiece and have a plan of the floor made which would show the location of each room and give the name of the person who occupies...