Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of spectators was about the same as usual at the evening meetings of the association and included a fair number of ladies. The officers were: Referee, Mr. G. B. Morrison, '83; officer in charge, Mr. J. E. Thayer, '85. To see the face of Mr. Morrison, so well known to gymnasium habitues, seemed quite natural. The exercises opened...
...many draw-backs which have been encountered. It is really wonderful, when the unsettled state of our athletes during the past few months is taken into consideration, how the officers of the association could have presented such interesting programs at the meetings just finished. This energetic work, in the face of adverse circumstances, reflects credit of no low degree on the gentlemen in whose charge has been the management of the association, and we feel sure that we voice the sentiments of the college in tendering them our hearty thanks for their untiring labor...
...love for political excitement sometimes led him into strange situations. On one occasion, when the streets of Cambridge were filled with crowds of votes, excited over a closely contested election, he was hit full in the face by a dead cat. The aggressor came forward and very civilly asked pardon, offering the explanation that the compliment had been intended for a Mr. Adeane. Macaulay good-naturedly accepted the apology, saying, "I only wish you had meant it for me, and hit Mr. Adeane...
...like forty-six when they passed Butchertown, the victim sawed serenely away and the bowman even imageined that he splashed less than any man in the boat. When they finally drew up to the float, and while the crew were panting for wind, spitting cotton and wiping their dripping faces, the "passenger" looked around, with a childlike smile upon his unflushed face, and softly remarked...
Second round. This round opened quietly with much caution on Varick's part, who kept out of the way of Bradley's hard face blows. Soon, however, Varick dealt Bradley a terrific body blow but received a hard hit on the neck in return. Notwithstanding his bad condition he managed to deal Bradley an unusually hard kidney blow, but by his careless guard lost all he had gained. A little close fighting followed and the round ended quietly, much in Bradley's favor...