Word: drop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...drop was about even. The freshmen made the first heave and gained a little. Their gain was continual, with one exception, when '86 got in a good heave and regained a little rope. But it was all in vain, and when time was called at the end of the five minutes, '87 had won by nearly seven inches. The gymnasium immediately became the scene of frantic enthusiasm, as the victorious freshmen carried their team from the cleats...
...technical team were entered. It seemed in this as if fickle fortune was against us all through. First our two teams were drawn against each other, while the Tech. men, having a bye, looked on and got points on the style of their future opponent. At the drop the law men let '84 have about one-half inch, but Easton came down with bent knees so that one quick heave sent the rope well over to his side. About a minute later the '84 men were caught napping and quick heaves by the other side brought Appleton off his cleat...
...train for our greatest competitive event-the Yale race-are the ones who advance our boating interests the most throughout college in general. Do away with this Yale race, and our class races would feel the effect materially, and might possibly, in the course of time, themselves drop out. As the University crew is the keystone to all boating interests, so in each branch we can find a competing body which gives life to the rest. Thus the faculty, in making regulations which materially hurt the element of competition, in our athletics, are aiming a home thrust at physical training...
...students of Harvard, than are the columns of the Yale News and Cornell Sun to the men in those colleges. It would be but little trouble for a man who hears some fact of interest to others to write it upon a slip of paper with his name and drop it into one of our boxes, and it would be a favor duly appreciated by the editors in charge of our local column...
...return. In fact on the other side the return volley is immensely harder than it is in America. The advantage of this is obvious to anyone who has studied the game. In the American style of volleying, on the other hand, as the ball is seldom allowed to drop below the level of the net, the 'shaping' of the racket tells the receiver at once at what angle the ball is coming, and he is there to meet it. The low volley always keeps the ball low. I should recommend our players to take pains to acquire the low volley...