Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ground before it reaches the bat. The cricketer can have but a poor eye, in fact, he must be but a poor player, who cannot hit such a ball; and though if he is careless about it, he may readily hit a catch, yet with a moderate amount of care he can hit a full-pitched ball not only easily, but safely. Now the English cricketers saw none but full-pitched balls thrown in the base-ball game they were watching, and yet to their astonishment quite a considerable proportion of these balls were missed! Here were the members...
...From a pretty careful examination of this volume we are inclined to think it one of the best brief accounts of our constitutional system that have been published. It has the sort of merit that is usually found in the comments of a competent foreign observer upon the institutions of any country. Things that attract little attention, and so are often not at all remarked or understood by those who live under a given system, strike a stranger with the charm of novelty; they are tacitly compared with other institutions, and their true character is often more keenly perceived...
Duplicate lists should be written on separate cards, each the size of a postal card. The lists should not be written on paper slips, and must be written on one side of each of the cards used. Care must be taken to hand in both the duplicate lists, each being precisely like the other in all respects...
...titles of the subjects should be given in full. Special care should be taken to avoid any proposal of topics now on the excluded list. No new list of excluded topics will be issued this year; the list issued at the beginning of the year will remain in force for the examinations...
...list at the proper time, or any proposal of inadmissible topics, may seriously interfere with the success of the student in question. Owing to the shortness of the time, and the number of persons concerned, the instructors cannot undertake to correct any mistakes as to these matters. Especial care should therefore be taken to conform to the foregoing rules...