Word: fights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Rumor says that Ryan sold out before the recent prize-fight...
...against one of the stock company of gladiators, Totus Idem. We cannot speak too highly of the ease and grace of Pugnus. After some amusing by-play, such as gouging out each other's eyes, tearing ears, etc., the combatants went at it in earnest. It was a royal fight, and the emperor showed his appreciation by now and then throwing a virgin into the bear-pits...
...soldiers' monument on the common. It took all of the hook and ladder companies and a windy speech of the mayor's to get it off. There used to to be some knockers in college then. Two or three of them would tackle a whole crowd, and fight till they cleaned them out, or got laid out themselves. Once a few of them cleaned out a whole car-load of men and made the driver of the car turn around and go back to Cambridge on the same track he went in on. Stirring times then. We don't have...
Some of the freshmen indulged in a snow-ball fight near the gymnasium yesterday...
Great interest was taken in the Ryan-Sullivan prize-fight by the students of Princeton College. The boys are naturally anxious to know who will be president of that institution next year. - [Chicago Tribune...