Word: personal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...condition of the Universities, and recommend whatever changes they might deem advisable. Surely, if those customs which have existed almost from time immemorial, fail when they are on their native heath, they cannot but do likewise if transplanted to a new soil. It must seem strange to a disinterested person that a dying system should be the subject of study; such a person would certainly say that the object of the President's visit might better have been termed the study, not of the system of instruction and general management at the English Universities, but rather of their methods...
...informed by a person who has been there that a new and very useful engraving-stand has been placed in the Library...
VIII. A goal can only be obtained by kicking the ball from the field of play direct (i. e. without touching the dress or person of any player of either side) over the cross-bar of the opponent's goal, whether it touch such cross-bar, or the posts, or not; but if the ball goes directly over either of the goal-posts it is called a poster, and is not a goal A goal may be obtained by any kind of kick except a punt...
...player being off side is put on side when the ball has been kicked by or has touched the dress or person of any player of the opposite side, or when one of his own side has run in front of him either with the ball or having kicked it when behind...
...person desirous of seeing an egregious blunder in reporting can be gratified in a perusal of the "Harvard College Matters" in yesterday's Globe. It is there stated that a company composed of members of the Everett Athenaeum have arranged to give theatricals at Andover and Exeter to-day and to-morrow. As no such arrangements have been made by that society, such information was news to its members, and they announce their intention of remaining in Cambridge for the present...