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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game. It is not to be rushed hurriedly against and cut out by rules whose after affect no one can measure, but it is the duty of every true foot-ball player to give his best attention at once to such action as shall confine the abuse, in order that before another season the evil shall have passed away. While it is considered at the present day an excellent play for two rushers to stand shoulder to shoulder in their line in front of their runner, and as he comes forward to open his path by turning away from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 1/17/1888 | See Source »

...kicking has been forgotten or ignored and all attention centered upon the running game, the key of which is 'make a hole for a man and then crowd him through it.' They even put all but two men in their rusher line when their opponents get the ball in order to regain possession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 1/17/1888 | See Source »

...order to re-open the Russian universities has been revoked. A chance to pursue studies at home is thus offered to the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/16/1888 | See Source »

...have a pitcher who can puzzle the Harvard batters. Upon hearing this, would it not be for the interest of the freshman team to practice batting against some good pitcher. Surely there are many pitchers among the upper-classmen who would give a little of their time in order to help '91 follow the example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/16/1888 | See Source »

...rivals, and for this purpose they will have to renounce in part that training in Latin and Greek which former generations of Englishmen have received. The assertion is made more peremptorily, more impatiently than ever before. Let us give up the preposterous doctrine that Latin must be learned in order to learn French, and let us teach French in order to teach Latin. In so doing we do not sacrifice literature to mere business, for the modern languages have literatures as well as the ancient. There exists a French literature which comprises books, poetry, devotion, philosophy, science, history, politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford and Cambridge Favor Modern Languages. | 1/16/1888 | See Source »

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