Word: drops
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...case on Saturday. If it cannot be arranged in any other way, then there should only be one ladies' day instead of two. But the spectacle of two men with faces, clothes and gloves besmeared with blood, punching and pummeling each other until they are ready to drop, does not appeal to feminine tastes, and this event should be eliminated from the programme for ladies...
...look into the matter. The meeting would be a benefit to that organization in the training and practice it would give to the men, and it would be a benefit to the University crew, which is of the greatest importance. We trust the matter will not be allowed to drop with this editorial, but will be taken up and considered by the proper authorities...
...north end of the building: A. Amory, (anchor), L. A. Piper, E. S. Jones and R. Jones, while '91 was represented by J. J. Higgins, (anchor), W. A. McClellan, 3; J. White, 2; and P. Y. DeNormandie, 1. The pull was a very exciting one. The freshmen won the drop by 1-2 in; at 3 min. '90 had made matters even, and finally won by about...
...between the Harvard and Tech freshmen was the next event. Tech had the weight. Technology was anchored by Rooney, with Greer, Lyman and Coles for a rope team. The Harvard team was composed of Tallant, (anchor,) McClellan, White and DeNormandy. Tech won the drop by about 5 in.; Harvard was very slow in getting down. Tallant made several attempts to regain the rope but they were ineffectual. Tech won by 8 in. The tug-of-war was followed by the running high jump. Wason, Finneshan, Irwin, and R. S. Hale, (H. A. A.,) were the contestants. Hale fell...
...only other event Friday evening which was of especial interest to college men was the tug-of-war between Columbia and Yale. Yale got the drop by an inch and held it for two minutes. Then Columbia brought the centre over the scratch and held it until the very end of the time, when Yale took an inch and a half and won by that amount...