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...society building southerly toward the site of the new Law School would do much better than the present field for the lacrosse men; but, just about the centre, the cricket men have their "crease." Thus a stretch of field, for about two hundred yards, is broken by a little patch of green of about thirty feet long. Then, again, why could not the lacrosse men practice on either Jarvis or Holmes two or three times a week, and the two base-ball nines accommodate themselves to one field on those days? If Yale enters lacrosse next year, our team...
...waved her handkerchief at me. I took off my hat and swung it in response; but I saw her face only through my tears. You see that dream had made me weak and nervous. Farther and farther away sped the yacht, till the sail was a dim white patch on the horizon...
...that you can carry a beer, a straight, or a Tom and Jerry singly, you do wrong in reasoning that you can carry them together. By Jupiter, you must have imbibed enough to bridge the infernal regions for the space of eight stades," - I fear he meant enough to patch - a mile, but am not certain; "in fact," he continued, "your symmetrical form is in jeopardy...
...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...