Word: touche
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...clip the following suggestive passage from a recent article on book-borrowing as of particular interest to college men. "Only those who love books understand the pang of losing them. A man who handles his book with firm yet tender touch, who delights to take down his pet volumes and smooth out the pages for sheer pleasure of the handling, is the genuine book lover, and by force of his love he will surely be the man who will lend and as surely lose. For it is the nature of this special attachment that the book-lover must share...
...escapade indulged in by the students; "yet," says his biographer, "whatever Poe may have been in after years, he was when I knew him at the University of Virginia as honest a friend as the sometimes waywardness of his otherwise noble nature would allow. There was not the least touch of insincerity, and never the slightest indication of that maliciously fickle disposition which in after times was so often brought up against...
...steadier game, From the kick-off the ball was passed to Cowling, who kicked far into Yale territory, but it was immediately returned by Richards; Henry secured it while he was on the run and made one of the prettiest kicks of the game, depositing the ball over the touch-line close to Yale's goal, where a fumble by Dennen gave us the ball. Henry made a magnificent try to run in and passed over the side line only a few feet from touch-in-goal. The ball was brought out as if for try-at-goal, when suddenly...
...referee shall be a graduate of either Yale, Princeton, Columbia or Harvard. (2) Rule 19 shall read : "The referee shall take out time for unnecessary delay, decide disputed points, and shall at his discretion disqualify any player without previous warning, for off-side play, tackling in touch, or violation of rules 28 and 38. In all points not covered by the rules, his decision shall be final." (3) Not more than two disqualified men on either side shall have their places filled by substitutes. (4) Rule 38 shall read : "No player shall lay hands on or interfere with an opponent...
Rule 19.-The referee shall take out time for unnecessary delay. Shall decide disputed points and shall disqualify any player whom he has warned twice for intentional off side play, intentional tackling in touch, or intentional violation of Rule 28. In all points not covered by the rules his decision shall be final...