Word: grips
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...commencement of the second half neither team changed its line-up but Penhallow soon retired, and his place was taken by Paine, who had been playing in Newhall's position, as the latter is laid up with a slight attack of grip. The better condition and team play of the undergraduates told heavily on their opponents, and the match became onesided. Nine goals were scored without serious opposition because of the excellent attack of Pell, Rumsey, and Townsend...
...progress of the University crews has been somewhat impeded of late by the sickness of three members of the squad. Filley and Lawson have had the grip, and Dillingham has been unable to row on account of a felon on his finger. All three of the men are now better, however, and will be on the river again by the last of the week. The changes necessitated by their absence have had a tendency to make the boat unsteady; but this fault was more or less over come in yesterday's long row. All three crews went over the four...
...year he made an early start in Shakesperian drama as Fenton in the "Merry Wives of Windsor." Soon came a notable event, the production of "Dan't Druce," in which the young actor made a pronounced success in his love scenes with Miss Marion Terry. He showed an easy grip of character in "Duty," and in 1879 he played Sir Horace Welby in "Forget-Me-Not," with Miss Genevieve Ward, in a trying part acted with great finesse and spirit...
...Sargent from about five hundred Harvard students who have during the last ten years been distinguished in various forms of athletics, including football, rowing, and track athletics. It represents an athlete in the act of placing a dynemometer in his right hand, preparatory to testing the strength of his grip; and has been adopted as the permanent trophy in the intercollegiate strength test competition...
Tests for the annual strength test competition may be taken in the Gymnasium at any time before May 1. The candidate may chose either the old or the new tests. The old system is based on the force of the leg lift and the back lift and of the grip in the right and left hand; on the strength and capacity of the lungs, and on the ability to dip and chin. The new system is based on the following series of exercises: Lying down and rising to a sitting posture, chinning, dipping while resting on the knees, bending...