Word: fight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...compulsory gymnastics will be required of the lower classes. It is stated that the engagement of Prof. P. McClellan, of New York City, who was appointed to the chair a year ago, has been broken because within a week after his appointment he accepted a challenge to a prize-fight for the light-weight championship of America, and the proceeding could not be tolerated by the trustees of the university...
...elected he becomes a Fuchs so-called; in this condition he remains until he has acquired sufficient dexterity in fencing, when he is admitted to the full privileges of a Bursche. Each corps has three officers, a president, called Dux; a secretary, and a vice president. Each corps fights twice a half-year with each other corps, and it is very honorable to fight more if possible. As regards choice of men for mensur, the name of a student duel, the regulations are as follows: when the secretary announces to the president that on such a day so many duels...
...honor of the class by proving himself the best swordsman in the university. The happy student who is chosen is often ignorant of his opponents names. He may refuse, if he will, but as it is considered a great honor to represent the class he seldom declines to fight. As class feeling runs high, duels are frequent...
...present to dress the wounds and control the fighters. Generally the duel is short and lasts but a few moments. Occasionally, when the duelists are both fine swordsmen, the struggle may last for twenty or thirty minutes. When one is wounded he is led away and his victor must fight a fresh foe. If he succeeds in vanquishing all comers he is declared the class champion and is obliged to fight all challengers. The wound received is not dangerous but always leaves a scar, and almost every student one meets in a university town bears the marks of his encounters...
...Whiting, son of Congressman Whiting, of Massachusetts, has been fined $57, for an assault on Harry B. Osborne, a fellow-student at Williston Seminary, Northampton, Mass. Osborne was a new student, and Whiting insisted on his treating all hands. When Osborne refused, a fight ensued, and Whiting broke Osborne's nose and otherwise damaged...