Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think of the large amount of mail which passes daily through his hands, there is little wonder that occasionally letters find their way into the wrong rooms. Besides, as we have said above, the letters are frequently misdirected. Now it is only right that every man, when such mistakes occur, should rectify them as soon as possible. Let no one allow a misdirected letter to lie for days on his desk, but let him return it immediately to the post office or to the person to whom it was written. We feel sure that a little care and promptness...
...fall meeting of the athletic club of the Technology occur on Saturday afternoon at their gymnasium on Exeter street...
...conduct of the students at our American colleges, that it is somewhat of a relief to learn that our English cousins are not entirely above reproach in that respect. Of course we should no more judge the great body of English students by the few cases of disorder which occur, than we ourselves ought to be condemned because of the misconduct of a few. An editorial in the current number of the "London Graphic," in commenting on undergraduate life at Oxford, says : The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford has had to inflict a fine of ten pounds on some undergraduates...
...universities and round London. A hundred and twenty matches are now played in the suburbs where thirty or forty were played fifteen years ago. and in the north the system of county matches makes rapid strides. Is the game more dangerous than it was ? Most of the accidents occur under the Rugby Union rules, and the players vaunt the change from the old twenty to the fifteen game. The improvement makes the game faster, but it brings with it far more falls and collisions than the old shoving contest. To have abolished the "maul-in-goal" is at any rate...
Football, as is ought to be pursued, is a healthy and invigorating exercise; but experience of the past has abundantly shown that the great Inter-Collegiate games fall little short of being prize fights. Accidents frequently occur, often serious; and ill feeling is engendered between colleges.[Argo...