Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Strauss, '86, weight 119, were the only entries in this event. In the first round Strauss, who was as quick and agile as a cat, after considerable sparring, secured a neck-hold which, however, was soon broken by Thompson. Thompson soon secured a hold and threw Strauss upon his face, but could not succeed in turning him upon his back in the time allowed. Strauss soon after again fell on his face but eluded all attempts to turn him, although Thompson once nearly had him on his back. Strauss soon after got a back hold but Thompson broke away...
...mouth of an innocent-looking cannon which protects a camp of wigwam-like tents. This book has a feature which many a freshman wishes could apply to his physics or analytics - it cannot be opened. Another interesting relic in the room is a plaster cast of Cromwell's face made from the mask taken after death by the sculptor, Thomas Woolner. After passing through the hands of Carlyle and Charles Eliot Norton, it finally found a permanent resting-place in the library in 1881. If any one has any doubt as to Cromwell's unsympathetic treatment of Charles...
...HINT TO BUTLER.Mr. Quincy declares in his recently published reminiscences of Andrew Jackson that the old soldier bore himself well in the face of the Latin which the scholars of Cambridge discharged at him when they conferred on him the degree...
...bewails the cruelty of the faculty in not giving us a holiday, at the same time hinting that he expects to take a little vacation himself, and that a slight donation will not be amiss. Once in a while we come in to breakfast and find his face wreathed in smiles, the cause of which we soon learn, when he confidentially whispers in our ear that he is twenty-six years old today; he then draws off a few feet and watches the effect of his scheme. In short, if there is any limit to the waiter's avarice...
...that the testimony of Pope's friends about the "4.30 order" was decidedly suspicious, and that Porter did not receive the order until about 6.30 P. M., as several of his staff and officers testify. Porter's note to McDowell at six o'clock also bears on its face the fact that he had not received the 4.30 order. It was also impossible for Porter to fulfil the order, because the position, both of the enemy and of the Federal troops was different from what the writer of the order supposed. The lecturer then took up another charge against Porter...