Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Monday afternoon a stray bullet broke one of the windows in the library of the Law School...
About two weeks ago the committee of the M. C. C. (Marylebone Cricket Club) decided that "after the most careful consideration, they are not at present prepared to suggest any alteration in law xxiv of cricket." That means that for an indefinite time the body that governs the game in England and her colonies will allow the much-abused leg-before-wicket law to remain as it has been...
...within the last ten days, at the meeting held in Philadelphia, the United States Association decided to change the law so that a batsman shall be out if with any part of his person he stop a ball, which, in the opinion of the umpire at the bowler's wicket, shall have been pitched in a straight line from it to the striker's wicket, and would have hit it. The meeting was very fully attended. It is the first time in the history of the association that it has broken the record of conservatism and devotion to English custom...
There is to be a baseball game between two Law School nines this afternoon on Cambridge Common...
...cent. liquor law went into effect in Cambridge on Monday. Adam's Welsh rarebits are now made with milk instead of beer, and even the innocent ginger ale is barred...