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...last number of The Week's Sport Mr. W. C. Camp has a very interesting article on the progress of American football as illustrated by the changes in the rules regarding the scoring and the scrimmage. What he says of the American conception of the scrimmage is of especial interest. When Harvard and Yale adopted the Rugby game the law in the Rugby Union code read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Development of FootBall as Shown by Alterations in the Rules. | 1/7/1890 | See Source »

...read a paper on "A Forerunner of Bunyan in the Twelfth Century." He described the didactic poetry of the Middle Ages, with special reference to the tendency toward the Reformation and Humanism. He read specimens from a French monk Jean d' Auville, whose "Architrenius" somewhat resembles the "Pilgrim's Progress." The session was continued through the whole day, with other papers and discu-sions on each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Language Association. | 1/3/1890 | See Source »

...which now draw so many students there. The most notable increases in the numbers of students have been in the numbers of students have been in the arts course and in the Sibley college courses. This remarkable growth has given Cornell a place among the American universities. Her future progress will be watched with no little interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Growth of Cornell. | 12/9/1889 | See Source »

...that "the prejudices and desires of the most impartial observer must necessarily color his deductions;" but he says, "I venture to believe, however, that the forward movement has gone far enough to enable us to appreciate the spirit of it, if not to comprehend the general direction of its progress." This spirit he conceives to be the change coming about by natural growth and by logical processes of induction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Atlantic. | 11/27/1889 | See Source »

...Amateur Athletic Union has determined to hold an athletic meeting on a large scale during the progress of the coming world's fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/25/1889 | See Source »

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