Word: barring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gymnastics, numbering seventy-eight members, is divided into four sections according to strength. Twenty-eight marks are required to enter the first division, twenty-two the second, seventeen the third, and twelve the fourth. The basis for assigning marks is as follows: "The applicant places himself between the parallel bars, resting upon his hands with arms straight. He then lowers himself by bending the arms until they are in a flexed condition, then rises again. One mark is allowed each time he rises. The flexors of the arms and some of the chest-muscles are tested on the ladder...
...envious bar to intellectual food...
...perhaps kill one another, or get their eyes knocked out, or their teeth punched down their throat. Some men, when they go in a saloon, do not get drunk, but gamble and lose all of their money. It would be better for them to stay at home; for the bar-room is the place...
...find by inquiry that many readers were compelled to think the writer in earnest during the first half-column. They then ran on such a sand-bar of conceit - provided he was in earnest - that they concluded it was sarcasm. After that the article was such a curious combination of sarcasm and burlesque, and so frequently did there occur conflicting opinions, that it was impossible to form any idea of the article as a whole. Many unacquainted with college life must have thought there were facts there well concealed, and this is where the harm comes in; we must...
...Wiley, '77, then won the prize for exercises on the horizontal bar, performing some difficult feats in a very graceful manner. The lightweight wrestling, between Messrs. Brett and Latham, then took place. The first bout, lasting twenty-five minutes, was spent in manoeuvring to obtain a hold; Mr. Latham finally threw his opponent, after an exciting struggle, in which Mr. Brett had the under-hold. In the second bout Mr. Latham threw Mr. Brett on his hands and knees, but as this was not a fall, and as the match had already occupied so much time, its conclusion was postponed...