Word: gauntlet
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...plenty of time and space, we would like to pick up the gauntlet thrown down to us by the Oberlin Review. We would like to comment on the extreme weight of its articles (O Heavens! how heavy they were); to praise the judicious arrangement of the paper, putting its best column (the Exchanges) near the beginning; to - But really we have n't any more time to waste on this sheet of "Our Boys and Girls...
English vs. American Colleges. Bell's Life, under date of March 2, says that Oxford neither threw down the gauntlet to American colleges, nor did they take it up, or purpose doing so. If any college enters at Henley and takes its chance of meeting an Oxford or Cambridge boat, every facility and a hearty welcome will be afforded them. Because Oxford accepted Harvard's challenge once, is no reason why she should accept it again, much less that of any other college...