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...English game of foot-ball, a man can be tackled below his waist, even by his ankle or foot, but tripping is not allowed...
...finish in the allotted time. This of course brings buried work, and, in most cases, correspondingly poor work. Especially is this true in the examinations on languages. A man is given a piece to translate which he has only time to render into awkward and rough English, and which is therefore of no possible advantage to him as an exercise. Now if more care and judgment were used, all this might be avoided, and we should at least be spared the trouble of having to go over a paper at break-neck speed, in addition to enduring all that makes...
Charles Dudley Warner has been appointed non-resident lecturer on English Literature at Cornell...
After the Christmas recess individual instruction will be given to each member of the section in English...
...Pall Mall Gazette thus comments on the English game of foot-ball :-"The heavy list of casualties reported from the two universities last Saturday will revive the protest against the dangerous character of foot-ball. And yet, in spite of all protests, the game increases in popularity, notably at the two universities and round London. A hundred and twenty matches are now played in the suburbs where thirty or forty were played fifteen years ago. and in the north the system of county matches makes rapid strides. Is the game more dangerous than it was ? Most of the accidents occur...