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...ball be sent beyond the side-bounds and yet behind the goal line, it shall be touched down and thrown in from the corner in a diagonal direction by whoever touches it down...
...outside world, live these innocent prisoners. Their age varies from eight to eighteen years. Here they pass ten years of their youth, the most beautiful period of their lives; the period at which the soul, opening to the joys of mere existence, demands nothing but air and light. A corner of blue sky above their heads is the limit of their horizon. Have criminals any less? They are divided by ages and classes in their plays, as well as in their studies. In the one as in the other they are always under the eye of a master. The dormitories...
...members of the Class will confer a favor by calling at No. 39 Grays, between the hours of 2 and 3 P. M., and leaving their autographs. The book is to be neatly gotten up. On one cover is to be the stamp of the University, and in one corner, "Harvard '74." On the title-page will be written, "Autographs of the Class...
...WILLIAM EVERETT will deliver, next Sunday, at the Rev. Mr. Lothrop's church, corner Arlington Street and Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, the sermon which was preached last Sunday at King's Chapel...
...though he did not make his opportunities, and there is enough in his character to impress you with a sense of its unusual dignity; nor can you follow the history of the wretched Emperor with unbated breath; he shows his teeth like a hunted rat, now in one corner, now in another; at last he exposes his neck at Canossa to the spring of the cat that for twenty years has patiently waited in the Vatican. But endow him with an instinct amounting to foreknowledge, with a tact in the management of men that turns them into passive instruments...