Word: five
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...even for a few moments; but the use of boxing-gloves, while almost equally convenient, is better, because it is more cheerful, and hence more healthy, to exercise in company than in solitude. Once provided with a set of gloves, you are ready at any time for five minutes' lively sport, - your own room the arena. The chairs and table are pushed back and you begin. As you meet your opponent's shoulder-hit and cross-counter by a ready guard, or escape them by a quick toss of the head, or by a light step backwards, you smile...
...University crew, beating it by one mile. It was thereupon resolved that the colored crew should represent Harvard at the Intercollegiate Regatta, and with that object in view the brothers Stubbs were kept in excellent training until the 15th of July; they then left for Detroit, accompanied by five hundred undergraduates armed to the teeth...
...course was a straight-away one, three miles in length. Precisely at three o'clock, as the starting-gun was fired, two thousand eight hundred and ninety-five oars were dipped simultaneously into the water with a unison that was truly grand...
...second mile Vassar was still ahead, leading Ah Sin by five lengths; Harvard, however, had now gained the 497th place, our colored brethren, by strict attention to business, having succeeded in passing Yale...
...been properly recognized in his lifetime, it is well to dwell upon them in his obituary; but the talents of Professor Dennett were such that they could not be overlooked, and it is necessary only to point to the positions he held, before reaching the age of thirty-five, to indicate what a loss we have sustained...