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...occurred, not in the admission stand, but in the centre of the season ticket section, and consequently must have come, in part at least, from undergraduates. Harvard men have always treated opposing teams with courtesy; why should they now cheapen themselves by making members of their own team the butt of their sense less laughter? SENIOR
...SALE.- Butt, English bull terrier, 18 pounds, just imported; black back with white paws; two years old; unbeaten and well broken. Apply H. C. Sergeant, 237 Southampton street, Buffalo...
...Isaac Butt, in 1870, originally started the movement, suggesting a means of reconciliation between Ireland and Great Britain, which now seems about to approach a happy consummation. His movement even then was supported by the protestants and conservatives of Ireland. In the great meeting at Dublin they said that they wished no separation from England, but they would not have their domestic affairs regulated by an English parliament. The views propounded by the meeting rapidly spread. The extremists fell in with the movement, and had it been led with sternness then, things might have been far cifferent than at present...
Rule 12. The referee may disqualify a competitor who is boxing unfairly, by flicking or hitting with the open glove, by hitting with the inside or butt of the hand, the wrists, or elbow, hitting or catching hold below the waist, or hitting when down (one knee and one hand or both knees on the floor), butting with head or shoulder, wrestling or roughing at the ropes, using offensive or scurrilous language, or not obeying the orders of the referee...
...comes forward to open his path by turning away from one another at the instant he comes, the abuse of such tactics is wrong, and it never is, and never can be, good foot-ball to not only push and drag rushers out of the way, but even to butt, seize and pull to one side ends and halves who are running across to tackle. It is no exaggeration to say that this is, even now, not the exception, but almost the custom, in spite of the rulings of the umpires. In fact, these very men who should have stopped...