Word: barring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...What shall he do to obtain the necessaries of student life? Simply this, he may enter the feather-weight sparring, and win an easy chair; in the middle-weight he may secure a clock; in the heavy weight he can easily obtain a silk umbrella; by winning the horizontal bar, and the flying rings, he may stock his library; and so on, until nothing remains to be desired...
...Sargent is at present interesting the gymnasts at the Hemmen way gymnasium by giving some graceful exhibitions of difficult feats on the horizontal bar...
...occasional poem that was ever the bonne bouche of the feast, it is to have in Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes an after-dinner orator who, to estimate his powers in this genre from his performance at the last Harvard commencement dinner, and again at the dinner of the bar last night, is as much above the common run of dinner speakers as his father is above the common race of banquet posts. Indeed, those two speeches of the younger Holmes are nothing short of poems in prose, being conceived in the loftiest spirit and broadest view, and scarcely less perfectly...
...does not, as he sits upon the bench, look a day over 35. In view of his recognized learning and ability, the following will not be considered as a reflection upon his appointment: At the opening of the first term after he became a member of the court the bar was filled with barristers, and as the judges filed solemmy in and took their seats, one of the most eminent and highly esteemed lawyers glanced quickly up to the bench and, seeing Judge Holmes for the first time in that position, turned to his neighbor and in an apprehensive tone...
Dudley, '87, will not be a contestant in the horizontal bar event, this year...