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The game is generally played over distance of several miles, but shorter courses can be set, or the game played according to a time limit. [1] If the hare makes it to the finish line, they get to choose the next hare, or to be the hare themselves. Similarly, the person who catches the hare gets to choose the next hare. Two chalk arrows on the ...
Paper chase (game), a running race game where a "hare" player leaves a trail of paper for the "hounds" to follow; Hare and Hounds (board game), a strategy board game where three hounds attempt to trap a hare; Cambridge University Hare and Hounds, the cross-country running club of the University of Cambridge; Hare and Hounds, East Sheen, pub in ...
Hare and hounds is a classic example of the type of game studied in combinatorial game theory, giving it some similarities to checkers (draughts), Go, Fox and Geese and other such games. Mathematician Martin Gardner in his October 1963 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American stated that hare and hounds "combines extreme simplicity with ...
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The Paper Chase is a 1973 American comedy-drama film starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, and John Houseman, and directed by James Bridges.. Based on John Jay Osborn Jr.'s 1971 novel The Paper Chase, it tells the story of James Hart, a first-year law student at Harvard Law School, his experiences with Professor Charles Kingsfield, a brilliant and demanding contract law instructor, and ...
Osborn was born in Boston, on August 5, 1945. [1] His father, John Jay Sr., was a doctor at Stanford University School of Medicine; his mother was Anne (née Kidder).He was a descendant of both John Jay, [1] [2] a Founding Father and the first Chief Justice of the United States, and of railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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First edition (Houghton Mifflin, 1971)The Paper Chase is a 1971 novel written by John Jay Osborn Jr., a 1970 graduate of Harvard Law School.The book tells the story of Hart, a first-year law student at Harvard, and his experiences with Professor Charles Kingsfield, a brilliant and demanding contracts instructor whom he both idolizes and finds incredibly intimidating.