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Seven persons were drowned in the East river last evening, as the result of a collision in the dark between a barge and the Norwich line steamer City of Worcester...
...text of the most important additions and amendments to the foot-ball rules adopted at the recent convention in New York is as follows: "The referee shall call the game when he considers it too dark to continue play. Four touch-downs shall take precedence over a goal kicked from the field. The decision of whether a side has made five or lost ten yards shall be left to the discretion of the referee. The referee shall disqualify a player whom he has twice warned for violation of the rule relating to tripping and foul tackling...
...watched with some interest by those students who look forward to studying within its walls. The walls are finished as far as the second floor, and well fulfil the promise of elegance made by the architect's description of the building published last spring. The combination of light and dark stone in the east and west facades is unique. A large tablet has been built into the east end for an inscription. The lecture rooms have already assumed a form from which their size and convenience may be judged, and work is progressing rapidly. It is expected that work upon...
...shown by yesterday's game that it will hardly be possible to finish a game of nine innings before dark if play is not called before 4 o'clock, we would recommend to the captains of the different nines to agree upon six innings as the length of the game. If it were possible to begin before 4 o'clock, without inconveniencing anybody, this would doubtless be the better plan. The faculty, however, would not be likely to consent to such an arrangement, and even if they would it would not be expedient to break in upon the recitations...
...carefully composed "plan, deliberately made and adhered to" (through his sophomore year, at least,) has been completely destroyed. All the courses he had intended to take in his junior and senior years conflict. He is again left groping in the dark, with his courses disarranged. He is obliged to begin anew, after having lost a year, and arrange another plan. It is too late now to take certain courses which he could have taken by a little different arrangement of his sophomore year's work, which he could easily have made had he known of the changes in prospect...