Word: drop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sophomore and various local teams. Hearty applause was given to the contestants as they appeared on the floor of the gymnasium. '88 had the south end. Word was given without much delay. The hearts of the freshmen were gleeful when the ball went down, showing that '90 had the drop by a little over two inches. In about half a minute '88 got ready and began a succession of tremendous heaves. The '90 team rose as one man, but sat down again with six inches of rope on the side of '88. Balch did not give them time to breathe...
...result of much thought on the part of the faculty. There is no doubt but that the present system of grouping courses has its drawbacks and could bear revision. Many students come here with the intention of pursuing a special course of study and are obliged to drop one or more courses because they discover that there is a conflict in the arrangement of examinations. Notable among these difficulties has been the arrangement of English 6, 7 and 8. But now, it seems, these evils are to be done away with, and a thorough revision of the grouping system made...
TUG-OF-WAR.In the tug of war, '89 was represented by P. Marquand, W. G. Rantoul, J. Endicott, G. Perry (anchor); '90 by R. Jones, C. L. Crehore, J. P. Hutchinson, A. Amory (anchor). Mr. Morrison, '83, started the teams after the usual number of futile efforts; '90 won the drop by two inches. '89 worked hard and Perry struggled to straighten out his knees; nevertheless '90 had two and a half inches at the end of two minutes. Amory only came down once, and that time he got a couple more inches; '89 mean while was fighting...
...once more trespass on your columns with a subject which, if old, is not yet exhausted; indeed the carelessness with which the question of the possibility of establishing the said club has been allowed to drop, and the rapidity with which curiosity as regards it has evaporated would seem to prove the little interest in it, though there is, I think, deep interest below the surface of all the stumbling-blocks that impede its supporters. The most serious is, as I pointed out in a previous letter, the absence of any special reason strong enough to supply motive power...
...first heat of the tug-of-war was won by the M. I. T. team. The Harvard team lost about six inches to a team from the B. Y. M. C. U. on the drop. Easton rose to the occasion, however, and won this trial heat by fifteen inches. In the final heat Harvard lost the drop to Technology by about two inches. In spite of plucky up-hill work by our team, Technology kept the advantage to the end and won by about the same distance...