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...Regulation, no overdue theme will be accepted, unless the writer satisfies the Secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance. Overdue themes, countersigned by the Secretary, may be left at 18 Grays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 12/18/1886 | See Source »

...enjoyable. Over twenty hounds have formed the pack each time, and the almost entire absence of so-called professionals has given every runner a fair chance to win a cup for himself. An occasional rainy Tuesday made a postponement necessary, but with this exception there has been no serious set back until the present snowstorm, which make further runs impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hare and Hounds. | 12/13/1886 | See Source »

...almost everything. Two lines of seven men each stand opposed, and what do they do, or rather what do they not do? They push, jostle, wrestle, block, kick, pull, tear and fight with each other. Football is still a game in which men undergo the risk of injury, and serious injury. To quote one example, five out of the twenty-two men in the Harvard-Yale game had to retire from the field on account of their injuries. Faces were badly battered and bruises were the rule, not the exception. There is no fun in it for contestants, less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 12/13/1886 | See Source »

...Regulations, no overdue theme will be accepted, unless the writer satisfies the Secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was due to serious illness of other unavoidable hindrance. Overdue themes, duly countersigned, may be left at 18 Grays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 12/11/1886 | See Source »

...without previously consulting an English literature, - what he knows about the authors I mentioned in my letter, and whether he gained his knowledge of them from independent research or the English Department? His reference to the composition courses is equally flimsy as that to English 7 and 8. How serious is F. W. K. when he says that to "fulfill their purpose" (40 per cent., old regulations, D, new regulations,) "a man must gain no small knowledge in the whole range of our writers." F. W. K. forbids me to apply the word "preposterous" to the English Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/8/1886 | See Source »

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