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...collection of old American newspapers, made by Sir Henry Clinton, commander-in-chief of the English forces in this country during the latter years of the Revolution, has been bought from a London bookseller by three friends of Yale College and given to the college library. The files comprise ten volumes of the Pennsylvania Gazette, seven each of the Pennsylvania Packet and Pennsylvania Journal, and two of the Pennsylvania Chronicle. The givers, who pay $500 for this collection, are Professor H. W. Farnam, Captain C. H. Townshend, and J. D. Dewell of New Haven...
There are now virtually but three codes of rules under which foot-ball is played, viz.: That of the English Foot-Ball Association, the Rugby School code and the American Inter-Collegiate Association code. The English Association rules admit of no handling of the ball in "carrying" it - as in the case of a "run in" - "passing" it, throwing it or of "knocking on;" that is, batting it with the hands. It can only be kicked, except it goes out of bounds. Goals scored by a kick alone count in this game, there being no touchdowns in the score...
...study of the English Bible in its literary and secular aspect, and the due place of such study in a system of liberal education. Professor Bowen. Sever...
...Happily the judgment of the "powers that be" was not erroneous, the new class proving large in number and composed of good material. The new instructors are R. B. Richardson, Yale, '69, professor of the Greek language and literature; C. F. Richardson, Dartmouth, '71, professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature, and C. H. Cooper, Dartmouth, '77, tutor in Greek and instructor in history...
...next volume in the "English Men of Letters" will be "Macaulay," which Mr. John Cotter Morison undertook when Mr. Morley found himself unable...