Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...photography within the last few years is very noticeable, especially among college men. A year or two ago a man who possessed the apparatus of an amateur photographer was looked upon as a curiosity, but now, instead of being the exception, he is fast becoming the rule. The interest which the students show in this pastime is not surprising. Nowhere so much as at college does the student wish to perpetuate the pleasant memories of faces which cluster around his life. the pleasure of looking over in future years some old photographs of past friends and scenes of college life...
...pass a rule to the effect that: "If any eleven shall refuse to agree to the referee's decision, and shall delay the game more than five minutes, the game shall be declared forfeited, and shall be given to their opponents." This plan worms admirably in the different base ball leagues, where a nine finds fault with the umpiring, and it serves as a wholesome check on those inclined to 'kick...
...William Henry Bishop, well known as a writer, has gathered several of his short stories, which laws appeared in the different magazines, into book form under the title, Coy Susan and Other Stories. The volume is a handy one and the stories, as a rule, abound in good description's of men and places, making it a good book to read at old moments...
...understood that a number of the most athletic of Harvard students are organizing a picked team to play "Blind Man's Buff" and "High Spy," but the faculty of the college expresses a preference for "Copenhagen," for the reason that it is free from the boisterousness, as a rule, which characterizes the robust games named. -New York World...
...caused the students, and the danger of attending services held in a cold chapel, we deny the moral right of the authorities of a college to whip men into chapel when they are unwilling to attend. Men do not come to college to learn how to pray: as a rule, we think, they are quite capable of attending to their private devotions without any assistance. Students who are old enough for voluntary recitations are fully capable of responsibility on matters of religion. This, too, is generally recognized. The sole reason we have compulsory attendance at prayers, at present, is apparently...