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...careful examination, I conclude that so great is the opposition in the most important of these rules that any attempt to patch them together would be unsatisfactory to both sides. The smaller rules, indeed, relating to kicking off, choice of goals, limits of grounds, number of men, and so forth, are nearly alike; but in all the main rules there is certainly great difference, particularly in reference to players' picking up the ball and being chased. Another way of settling the difficulty seems to me fairer, which is, to play the game according to the Rugby or the McGill rules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL MATCHES. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

...does the change to six o'clock present any? To answer this question fairly, it must be kept in mind that not the interests of the boating and bail-clubs alone are to be consulted, and that the recreation, for perhaps it is nothing more, of the still greater number, can come at almost any time. It can hardly be denied that few, if any, cannot, under the present system, obtain at least an hour for whatever they may choose to employ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATE DINNERS. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

...movement will not be realized, but that there is still much the society can do, and will do, towards a careful study of Shakspere. It is doubtful whether the plan of weekly or monthly papers to be read before the main society in London can be carried out; the number of living English writers on Shakspere is small, and men seek other ways of addressing the public when they wish to do so. But in the republication of rare books ("Allusion Books") in which reference is made to Shakspere, in issuing copies of the folios and quartos, in collating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

...texts of Romeo and Juliet with old plays from which Shakspere may have drawn. Then, reported as preparing, are a reprint of the Quarto of 1636, of the Two Noble Kinsmen, a play by Shakspere and Fletcher, as also a revised edition, with notes, of the same play. A number of interesting works that the society would do well to publish have been suggested in the Academy, by Mr. Richard Simpson and others. Among them, besides various forms of parallel texts, are suggested reprints of the works of Robert Greene, Thomas Nash, Thomas Lodge, Henry Chettle, and others; reprints...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

...readers' attention to this Shakspere Society, and to show what a good work it may do if well supported. The list of members up to last July includes 413 names, yet after but 35 of these stand the letters U. S. A. It can hardly be supposed that this number represents all those in this country who care enough for the study of Shakspere to enter the society, and we cannot but hope that Harvard undergraduates, at least, may in future be more fully represented on the list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1874 | See Source »