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...touch the ball, when it passes behind the goal lines, to save or get a "rouge." Even the rules of the Association game, which may be described as a sort of compromise between all rules, are more lenient ; for by them the goal-keeper may in defence of his post make use of his hands in any way save in carrying the ball ; he may stop it with them, or hit it away. But in the Eton field even that last resource is denied ; even in the sorest straits, by the feet, and by the feet alone, must the goal...
...Amherst students are exasperated over the ruling just made by the post office department at Washington, and the instruction of the postmaster here, that, after this quarter, no two students, unless brothers, will be allowed to use the same post office box, on the ground that they are not a "family, firm or coporation...
Themes not dropped into the wooden box in Sever 3 on the day on which they are due, must be brought or sent by post (at the sender's risk) to the instructor. No theme overdue will be received, unless it bears the signature of the Registrar...
...state administration, and they are at present, we believe, as a property also, vested exclusively in the State. In this country a different system prevails. Although it may be considered an open question why the State, in matter of railway communication and the telegraph, as well as in the post-office, should not assume the complete management of these channels of internal communication...
...activity, and to be rushing about the venerable streets of the Alma Mater in a style that savors either of fire or examination time. Anxious faces are to be seen peering nervously into every shop window, and consulting in a furtive manner memoranda of purchases to be accomplished post-haste, according to the directions of the inexorable bed-maker or landlady. Most unhappy of all appear the Freshmen who make their purchases under the supervision of an indulgent father, guardian, or uncle, and who seem to say by their conscious and almost guilty look, "Yes, we are Freshmen...