Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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MIDDLE WEIGHT SPARRING.First bout, F. C. Weld, '86, 153 1-2 lbs., and J. R. Thomas, '88, 157 lbs. Both men sparred cautiously during the first round and the honors were about even. Thomas got in two good blows on Weld, but most of his leads were well countered by the latter. In the second round Thomas led out well, and planted a rattling blow upon Weld's nose. He also used his right very effectively on Weld's body, but the round as a whole was rather tame. In the third round Thomas swung his right very effectively upon...
Second bout. H. McAllister, '86, 145 lbs., and G. F. Woodman, V. S., 156 lbs. After some cautious sparring, Woodman found an opening, and planted a heavy blow upon McAllister's jaw who retaliated by getting several good leads on his opponent. Woodman pressed his man to the corner, but most of his blows were cleverly ducked or countered by his opponent...
When Harvard, in 1841 made radical changes in the college curriculum, making Greek and Latin elective after the freshman year, the cry was raised by the more conservative colleges that this would be a death blow to the classics, claiming that students, when no longer required to take disciplinary studies, would immediately cease to pursue them. The result was quite the contrary. Greek and Latin became, and have since remained, among the most popular electives. When the work of the freshman year was made almost entirely elective, the same cry was raised by the classicists. Again, as we see, they...
...classics have received another blow. They are taken into account no longer in the annual competitive examinations for commissions in the English army. The innovation, however, has but little significance, one way or the other, in the discussions of the Greek question at present going on. It is doubtful if a man would prove either a better or a worse commander of troops upon a modern battle-field, simply because he happened to have read in Thucydides a description of the fighting around Syracuse. Wellington was a classicist; Grant...
...which rush beneath the granite arches. This man was lured by his deadly enemy to a quiet place at a quiet hour and murdered. Can we not picture the sudden grapple and the terrible struggle, upon which the cold stars gazed down so unpityingly? No eye saw the savage blow, no ear heard the victim's shriek, as he was flung from the parapet. The night was deaf, and the darkness was blind, and nothing remained to tell the story but the clotted handful of the murderer's hair which the police took next morning from the rigid fingers...