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...strict regulations governing the rushing line as regards 'lining-up,' etc.; also in the manner in which the ball is put in play and other features that go with it. By these improvements on the old Rugby game, by the reduction of the number of players from fifteen to eleven, and by the addition of many new features, the game is replete with points of scientific skill and "has become a miniature game of strategy.' The "rushers,' the 'quarter-back,' the 'half backs,' and the 'full-back'are described by pointing out the characteristics of the playing peculiar to each...
...pursuance of Captain Henshaw's notice yesterday, that men desirous to try for positions on the nine should present themselves on Holmes Field, about fifteen candidates appeared. Of last year's team there remain still in college Henshaw, Linn, Boyden and Mumford, so that that there are plenty of vacancies to fill and the prospects for next season are anything but bright. Willard, captain of last year's nine, is back, but has signified his determination not to play any more. It is needless to add that Bingham, who pitched last year, will be debarred from playing this season...
...Fifteen years ago Prof. Hill came to Harvard. From that time he has been working to carry out his plan of more thorough instruction in English. Meeting opposition on every side, in the preparatory schools, as well as among the students and in the faculty, he kept on. In spite of apathy or difference of opinion among his associates he still worked for his department. Everywhere he went he met the statement, 'I write well enough, and I was never taught English.' This hostility, or at best indifference, had to be overcome. Finally he drew to himself the young...
...annual inter-class handicap match of the Shooting Club came off Wednesday afternoon. The senior team allowed '88 and '89 fifteen points each, and '90 twenty points. This handicap was two liberal, and proved too great an obstacle, for the '87 team to overcome. The conditions of the match were 4-men teams, each man to shoot at 25 clay birds, 5 angles, 18 yards rise. The freshmen won handily with a lead of 7 birds. They shot extremely well, and bid fair to prove worthy successors to the graduating '87 team. Appended is the score...
Among the fifteen young theological students graduated from Auburn Theological Seminary a few days ago were a Hindoo, a negro, and several Europeans...