Word: facings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...heavy-weight sparring there were two entries W. H. Shea '92 and F. B. Wintrop '91. Shea had entered without much training, merely to oblige the magagement so that the event would not be a walkover. Winthrop clearly showed his superiority by getting at Shea's face time and again, although Shea brought him to his knees by a back-hand swing. The second bout was more or less a repetition of the first, and Dr. Appleton concluded that a third round was unnecessary and awarded the cup to Winthrop. Winthrop's clean style and straight blows were exceedingly effective...
...purpose. When Admirable Blake inflicted a severe blow upon the Spanish-navy, the queen immediately sent messages of apology to Spain, although the very ships that Drake had destroyed were intended for England's conquest. The people of England, however, were far more ready and willing to face the danger. In spite of the meagre appropriations of the government a fleet was built and an army organized...
...festival in which thousands of treasures of all kinds were heaped on the fire, layers of clay and sand were laid over the whole mound and its use forever destroyed. Another of the Turner mounds is on a higher level than the rest and is built so as to face the East, thus showing indisputably that the sun was worstripped by these people...
...been placed in a stump. The powder had been placed by a workman and the fuse lighted. Magoun, thinking the powder had failed to ignite had stooped over the stump with a lighted match for the purpose of lighting the fuse when the explosion took place. Magoun's face was the mark for the flying fragments while his head and arms were frightfully cut. He will probably recover from his injuries but will bear the marks for life...
...choir sang the following selections: Stainer's "They that Wait Upon the Lord," Sullivan's "Turn Thy Face from Thy Sins," and Gilbert's "Thou Shalt Show Me the Path of Life...