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...play than it could be picked up, and another to push the ball backward with the foot instead of kicking it through. Things had reached this point when the rule mentioned above was adopted in order to prevent the former practice. Here follows an excellent example of the effect of legislation upon the game. Had this rule been directed against the kicking back instead of against the picking up in the scrimmage our quarter back play would not have followed as it almost immediately did. Legislation favored snapping the ball back as the best and most scientific outlet...
...Yale" is the most pretentions story that has appeared for some time. The idea is a good one and is well worked out. The best part of the story is the description of the Texan dance which is vividly written, but from the abruptness of the change, has the effect of an interpolation. The story is not completed in this number, however, and the ending may give unity to the whole...
...shall be only too happy to make a statement in regard to the conditins under which you and the rest of the College boys went to England. I had an interview with Mr. A. G. Hodges last evening and gave him a letter to the effect that you went purely for pleasure, and that no money except for your absolute expenses, was allowed. I can go still further and say that no money was paid to any of the gentlemen except upon their presentation of vouchers covering the amount of the preceeding week's expenses, all of which vouchers...
Rule 2 shall go into effect on January 1, 1890, but shall not be retroactive, in the sense of disqualifying by reason of past acts men who would be eligible under the practice at that time existing...
...Romantic movement, however, produced a lasting effect in the powerful impulse which it gave to the study of mediaeval literatures. Many of the poetic treasurers of the middle ages which had been buried for centuries were now brought to light and the side of the Romantic tendency in literature then arose to a parallel tendency in philology, most conspicuously represented in its early beginnings by the two Grimm brothers, the founders of the new science of Germanic philology...