Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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ENGLISH B.Theme XI, will be returned to students on Tuesday, May 17, from 2 until 3.30 o'clock. Themes not called for at that time will be left, at the owner's risk, in the tin box on the mantel-piece in Sever...
Yesterday afternoon, the second of the games for the class championship was played with '87 and '89 as the contestants. '89 put a new man in the box who proved a failure. '87 speedily "caught on" to his delivery and batted out sixteen runs in the three innings which he pitched. In the third innings by ten hits well bunched and by five errors of '89, '87 made 12 runs. At the end of third inning '89 put McPherson in the box, who kept '87 down to the three hits...
...field '87 did good work while '89 played a loose game. '89 was severely handicapped by the edict of Wiliard, which forbids its regular pitcher to enter the box. With an entirely new battery, '89 did well to keep its opponents down to fifteen hits...
...note of the subject of each theme, on a card specially prepared for the purpose, must be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 at least one week before the theme is due. A card will be found enclosed in every theme returned to students...
...course there is absolutely no means of judging of the relative powers of the ancients and the moderns in the "noble art of self-defence." That the ancients, especially the Greeks, did box, and that most savagely, we know. So far from using gloves to lessen the damaging effects of their blows, or even from using simply the power that nature and training had given to their bare fists, they increased this by tying strips of hard bulls hide round them when clinched, and sometimes even attached nails and lead buckles to these to make their blows more deadly. They...