Word: graeco
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...events will be as follows. Running 100, 220, 440 and 880 yards, and 1 and 5 miles; 120 yards hurdle race 10 obstacles 3 feet 6 inches high; walking 1 mile; running high jump; pole vaulting; throwing the hammer and 56 pound weight, and putting the shot and Graeco-Roman wrestling...
...other holds the drapery which comes from the shoulders and covers the lower portion of the body and the lower limbs. The modeling of the chest and limb is masterful, the pose of the head majestic. The pale dull red, green and yellow of the background, and the Graeco-Roman details of the decorative panels above and below the figure, are the same in both halves of the window. In nothing else does the glass in which Virgil is portrayed resemble Homer, save in the fillet of bays which encircles the brows of both poets...
...athletic association that cannot show better wrestling than has been seen at Harvard for the past three years. One reason for this is, perhaps, the failure of the Gymnasium authorities to provide any facilities for the practice of wrestling. Another more important one is the Faculty's prohibition of Graeco-Roman. But, however this may be, the fact remains that wrestling at Harvard now amounts to nothing. Another feature in our athletic exhibitions needs improvement. The tug-of-war is always arranged at the last moment, and the men who pull have seldom practised more than three or four times...