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...arouse any interest, as it was played under the Canadian code of rules. The principal differences between these rules and the rules then in force in the University was, to quote a daily paper of that date, that "under the Harvard rules the ball must be kicked over a rope extending across the entire field, while accordingly to the McGill plan, the ball must be kicked over a wooden bar 10 feet from the ground...
...last period, another Tufts pass was intercepted, this time on the 34-yard line. Eight rushes resulted in victory for Harvard. During the remainder of the contest, Tufts was at the end of its rope, throwing pass after pass in desperate attempts to score...
...those who thought they had any grievances taking advantage of such time to resent them. Compulsory attendance upon religious exercises seemed to many to justify their using every means to evade or disregard them. Thus the bell was turned up and filled with water which froze at night: the rope on which it was hung was cut and the Bible was stolen from the pulpit...
...policy with regard to English Composition was, we believe, an economic one. The new policy continues, apparently, from force of custom, though it has its advocates. They argue, among other things, that the average man taking a Composition course regards writing correct English as a stunt, like tight-rope dancing, to be performed only on special occasions in the class-room. This argument has some truth in it, but it is fair to suppose that a man will in the end fall quite involuntarily into the use of his special parlor accomplishment in his daily work. Moreover, this...
...first of interest owing to the fact that it was played under the Canadian code of rules. The principal difference between the Harvard and Canadian rules was, to quote a daily paper of that date, that, "under the Harvard rules the ball must be kicked over a rope extending across the entire field while according to McGill's plan the ball must be kicked over a wooden bar 10 feet from the ground." For some time previous to the contest the team was drilled by night on Jarvis Field. Although this game represented the crudest kind of football, compared with...