Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Leavitt, H. A. A. and P. W. Conant, M. I. T. All the men jumped with case and grace. Conant was the first to withdraw. The contest between Lee and Leavitt promised to be very close but Leavitt slipped. striking his face against the bar with considerable violence, and was forced to withdraw thus leaving Lee the winner with a jump of 5 feet 5 1-2 inches...
...blows in the first round but Cabot forced the fighting. In the second round, Peters slipped as he was getting away from one of Cabot's rushes and fell heavily to the floor. Cabot was fresher for the third round but Peters landed some good clean hits on his face and neck. After some discussion the bout was given to Cabot...
...Deblois and Professor Castaldi. It was followed by the middle-weight boxing, for which there were only two entries: Mr. F. G. Curtis, Harvard, '90, and Mr. Clarke from the B. Y. C. A. The first round opened with cautious sparring. Curtis landed his left on Clarke's face. Clarke led, but fell short; Curtis landed again, and the round closed slightly in his favor. In the second round Clarke succeeded in getting in his left, evening things up a little. The round closed with a clean hit for Curtis. The third round was decidedly hotter than the preceding ones...
Ralph Ensign, a Yale senior, was generating gas from hydrofluoric acid in the Kent Laboratory recently, when the tube burst and its contents flew in his face and over his clothing. His eyes escaped, but his face was badly burnt...
...over-supply of labor, and would wages fall if attempts were made to save? If a man wants to do something, let him read Mrs. Field's and Mrs. Lowell's books on charity, and then let him go to the Associated charities. He will be brought immediately face to face with the problem of immigration with its ramifications in socialism, intemperance and cheap labor. The people of America do not realize their social responsibilities. The comfortable doctrine is accepted that the problems of poverty are too complicated for interference, and that competition will work everything out in time...