Word: forme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wish to make perfectly clear to all, and when this position is understood, men will recognize that it is one of some difficulty. To obviate all trouble and misunderstanding for the future, the Athletic Association will publish shortly a complete set of rules and regulations printed in the form of a small book, a copy of which will be given to each member of the Association. When this is done there can be no confusion possible, and it is only a matter for regret that this step had not been taken sooner...
...League Association is not altogether clear with respect to amateur clubs like ours. But on careful investigation, and by means of a good deal of questioning, we find that our nine will not be excluded from playing on the grounds of the Bostons except with the six clubs that form the league. Our nine cannot play with those clubs at all, but we may use their grounds, as we always have done, to meet other nines. Arrangements have already been made to open the season with the Live Oaks at Lynn on Fast Day, and other games of interest will...
...Blackheathen comes to us in an enlarged form, and contains a little more of literary effort, and a little less foot-ball and cricket news, than we find in most of the English school-papers. There is a very spirited prize poem on the Maid of Orleans; but whether it sounds more like the "Lays of Ancient Rome," or the "Lays of the Scottish Cavalier," is an open question...
...North being then asked to give some explanations in regard to the form of the challenge which had been sent, stated that it was for an eight-oared three-mile race, time and place to be agreed upon hereafter. Cornell accepted the challenge on condition that the crews should be six-oared, but as Captain North considered a six-oared race "impracticable," and abode by his challenge, this was accepted, after some delay, by the "Cornell Navy," an association understood to correspond to our University Boat-Club...
...admired of all admirers. Wearied with constant flattery, she seeks, for a moment, the pure air of the outer heavens; and, as she gazes at the silver crescent above, her thoughts wander far away to another hemisphere, and she murmurs softly, "Clarence, ever mine own." She sees not the forms of two masked figures creeping stealthily behind her. The next moment a stifled cry, the odor of chloroform, a feeble struggle, and a closed carriage rolls rapidly away, bearing the senseless form of the beautiful heiress. (To be continued in our next...