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...idea of a press club in college is one which has more than once been agitated but which has never come nearer realization than a passing discussion in the editorial columns of the various college publications. Such organizations have existed and it is claimed have flourished at other universities. Here at Harvard there are probably over fifty men who spend some time writing for publication. There is, it must be confessed, some doubt as to whether the men would find one another's society agreeable enough to make the social success of such a club possible...
...second half three scores were made, the first being a drop kick by Thorne, the second a safety by Folsom, and the third a touchdown by DeWitt. Dartmouth never had the ball nearer Yale's goal than the 30 yard line...
Exeter had the ball at the start and kicked it to Wrightington, who made 20 yards before he was downed. Brown then took the ball 30 yards nearer Exeter's goal, and a few seconds later, carried it over the line for a touchdown...
...ended in the present English. Even without the Conquest something similar, though not identical, would have taken place, for the Saxon was rapidly changing and would have ended, what with the processes incident to all living languages, and the introduction of Latin at the revival of learning, in something nearer to modern English than to the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf...
...essential that a piece of architecture should harmonize with its surroundings as well in outline and form as in color. A house should not be placed in the centre of a small, square piece of ground, having an even border on all sides of it, but should be placed nearer the side of the lot, with the larger part on one side of the house. This will give much better light and will add materially to the artistic effect. The result produced by a neglect of this rule may be seen in every town, in the houses belonging to people...