Word: fighters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard in the Sixties, I, H. G. Palfrey. The Turk Fighter, A. E. Hancock. A Question in Rhetoric...
...Harvard in the Sixties," by H. G. Palfrey, is interesting. The reader is surprised at all the great changes which thirty years have wrought. The Turk Fighter is a clever sketch. It describes the ingenius way the inhabitants of a certain Hungarian village have of treating their shrews. These two articles and the latter of the "Two Sketches" are the only things that are worth reading in the number. None of the other contents has the slightest excuse for publication, except that of filling space...
...Ingen. When the final heat came, the hopes of the Harvard delegation ran high as they dwelt upon the fact that Shead had beaten the redoubtable Lyman in the trial heat, and Fearing had distanced Van Ingen. But Lyman had evidently been "sparring for wind," as the prize fighter would phrase it, in his first heat and now he proved his right to the reputation which he enjoys by coming in a good first in 16 2-5 seconds, - Fearing and Shead winning three points for Harvard by securing second and third places...