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...small fortunes in the furnishing and decorating of their rooms, do not labor in vain. Rooms of greater luxury and elegance are not to be found anywhere, could not be wished for. Such rooms are well worth seeing. and are pretty sure to display the latest styles in wall papers, draperies and furniture...
...former the game begins by a "bully" formed opposite the point where it passed out of play. On either side are a "post" and two "sides," with others to back them up. These form down opposite each other, alternately under and over as at "the wall," and the ball is placed between their feet. This bully is mostly but a momentary affair, and the ball, if not carried through by superior weight, is turned out almost at once to one of the "corners." Behind the bully stand the "flying man," the "long-behind," and the "goals," and sometimes a player...
...already owed our debt, does indeed make one statement to which we must venture to demur. Winchester and Harrow, he says, are "the chief exponents of the game wherein kicking alone is allowed as a means of propulsion." Eton "plays a hybrid game in two different ways, 'at the Wall' and 'in the Field,' the latter being a sort of mixture of both kinds of play." Mother Eton has been a good deal harried and mocked in these latter times, poor thing ! But surely so baseless an imputation as this has never yet been cast upon her. We had always...
Some ingenious persons covered the John Harvard statue last night with a coat of tar. The same persons presumable, marked a large '87 on the wall at the entrance of the chapel...
...embrassing position, and appropriate for my private store one more trophy. This act made me feel very virtuous, and when I went to sleep that night I dreamed pleasant dreams, of Freshmen coming to my room and gazing with fear and a we upon the trophies on the wall, and then with many an excuse for their intrusion, hastily withdrawing...