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...like to see the ball kicked backward. The Americans thought the latter move was a good part of the game. Mr. Manning spoke of a proposed rule that had found favor to oblige the half-backs who received the ball to stand at a certain distance so as to prevent block games. The British committee concurred in this. - [New York Times...
...hesitate - perhaps there is slight ground for such rude talk - but our trans-Atlantic cousin has blundered elsewhere. May we ask of him, with all deference, in the future to leave American books alone, or to examine their contents more carefully. Who knows but that he might correct certain errors and find more edification and less amusement. Still the conviction remains, as the young lady remarked to the whist-playing parson: "I fear, sir, you have missed your vocation...
...certain elective in English rejoiced in the attendance of one student yesterday...
...first floor is the parlor, and the windows in this apartment are hung with white lace curtains, fitting symbols of that energetic unrest which pervades certain Western houses, for these curtains are kept in constant motion, bulging out into the room like white-waistcoated aldermen in summer, and driven against the windows in winter by drafts of half heated air from one of Hawkins.' "self-feeding, self-cleaning giant furnaces." This furnace is a source of great comfort and rest to the Butterfield family. I say rest advisedly, for "change" is "rest," and the infinite variety of changes of this...
...suggests that the changes should be made more rapidly, or that the start should be made at a higher point. In such a question there are, of course, arguments pro and con, and it would be impossible to satisfy all by fixing any definite point. There is, indeed, a certain mean, by securing which the best general results can be obtained. We see no reason to doubt that that mean was not attained at the recent meetings. Furthermore, we believe that the starts were in most if not all cases made at points agreed upon by the contestants in each...