Word: belts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...document is presented in regular form, no man need feel obliged to admit anyone, save the college authorities. On the other hand, every man is at liberty to protect his room from intrusion in any way that may seem best. In truth, either a policeman's billy, hat, or belt make a much better wall decoration than the handsomest street sign ever "ragged" by silly freshman or wicked sophomore...
...TRIALS.There were four teams which actually contested in this event, those of Lafayette, Leigh, Columbia and Harvard. A fifth from St. Johns was ruled out because of an improper belt, and the Pennsylvania team did not turn up. Lafayette made easy work of the Columbias, and the Harvard men had to pull the Leigh team, their old antagonists of a year ago. The result was that at the end our men had pulled fourteen inches away from Lehigh. This left Lafayette and Harvard to contest for the final heat, the last event on the programme...
...during the remainder of its existence. Arms were furnished by the State. The uniform was changed from the "Continental" style worn by the first organization to one rather more modern. It was composed of a blue coat, white vest, white pantaloons, white gaiters, a common black hat, and white belt with cartridge box and bayonet attached. The officers were reinforced in the same manner, except that a sash took the place of the belt, and a chapeau the place of the hat. In the fall of 1812, a banner with the college arms on one side, and those...
...himself to see if he has suffered any injury. I find that my eye has a tendency to close; my nose seems swollen; my cheeks tingles, and my head is rather confounded. I look to my dress; where is my gown? I can find only one sleeve, my belt and a few shreds of black and orange cloth hanging from my shoulders. I am horrified when I think that some Freshmen may have the rest...
...days when he was young, when there was not a man living could throw him in the ring. When these rural sports were of a character in which the parson and squire could take part, they flourished. The tangible honor to be won rarely consisted of more than a belt, but as the exercise became popular the prizes increased in value, and though for a time the wrestlings flourished, doing so upon an unsound basis, a decadence set in, and gradually, though surely, they fell to the position they hold at the present time.- [Land and Water...