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...amendments recently adopted by the Inter-collegiate Foot-ball Association promise to make the games next fall very much more interesting. The old "block-game" prevented all attempts at brilliant playing, and sometimes wasted the greater part of the time allowed for the game, causing discouragement among the players and receiving the most hearty disapproval of the spectators...
...number of safety touch-downs will probably be much increased this year; for it does not seem likely that the ball will remain in the middle of the field for any considerable length of time after the kick-off, now that the block-game is done away with, and manoeuvering near the goal lines of course gives one side a decided advantage. On the whole, the association is to be congratulated for their success in removing the most objectionable features in last year's games...
...Yale presided and W. H. Manning of Harvard acted as secretary. An executive committee was elected as follows : F. M. Eaton, Yale, chairman; W. F. Morgan, Columbia, secretary; E. T. Cabot, Harvard, and E. P. Morgan, Princeton. The principal subject the convention considered was doing away with the "block game." The following amendments to the rules were adopted : To Rule 5 - "No player having received the ball from one of his own side shall put it in his own touch-in-goal, under penalty of a safety touch." To Rule 7 add - "No sticky or greasy substance can be used...
...been said, by which the fire could have caught. No light was in the building; no smokers were there. It is becoming more firmly believed that the fire was deliberately set. Two other fires have occurred in Amherst suspiciously like this in origin. The destructive fire in Cook's block, and the fire in Palmer's block, and the fire in Palmer's block each originated in the attic in such a way as to warrant suspicion that they were incendiary; the Walker Hall fire began in the same place. Just now the college feels its loss much, and vigorous...
Tickets for the theatricals to be given by members of the sophomore class next Monday evening, and probably Wednesday matinee, will be sold at No. 18 Little's new block, beginning today at 10 A.M., and every day thereafter from 10 A.M. to 12 M., from 3 to 5 P.M., and from 8 to 9 P.M. Tickets for the floor, $1.50, and to the gallery, $1.00 each. No seats can be engaged during the sale this morning, and no tickets will be delivered until paid for. Orders may be sent to T. J. Coolidge, Jr., 18 Little's block, Cambridge...