Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cross the stream of Time...
...exercise in company than in solitude. Once provided with a set of gloves, you are ready at any time for five minutes' lively sport, - your own room the arena. The chairs and table are pushed back and you begin. As you meet your opponent's shoulder-hit and cross-counter by a ready guard, or escape them by a quick toss of the head, or by a light step backwards, you smile in conscious power, and feel a keen pleasure in thinking how the blows would sting did you not so skilfully shun them. To tap your adversary lightly...
Baptized with the cross were ye, bells of Bilbao...
...formed in other Colleges this year, and it is high time for Harvard to be represented. Last year our College was challenged to play a series of games, when of course all that could be done was to decline. Let us hope that when we are again asked to "cross the foils" over the checkered board, we may have a club that can at least maintain Harvard's humble position in collegiate contests, if not win her any laurels...
...Cross, Baltimore, Md.; class '75; age, 20; weight, 146 lbs.; height...