Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ring is immediately hushed as the umpire calls Silentium, zur Mensur! and announces that two members of such and such Verbindungen will fight for 15 minutes. Then one of the seconds gives the word to cross swords; and as the two figures in the middle stand with right arms high in the air and swords crossed, the other second cries Los! and off they go. The strokes, coming entirely from the wrist, rain down so rapidly that it is almost impossible for an inexperienced eye to follow them, but as each one is guarded one hears the sharp thwack...
...winter meeting at Yale last week three records were broken, the running high jump by one inch, the pole vault by 1-6 inch, and the high kick by two inches; the last is only two inches less than the world's record...
...spring-like weather of yesterday attracted a large crowd of students to the boat-house, since it had been noised abroad that the 'Varsity and the class crews were to make their first appearance of the season. The water in the river was very high, covering a large part of "Harvard Park...
...Harvard representatives at the Technology games last Saturday, the winter meetings promise to be the best contested of any that have ever taken place in Hemenway gymnasium. Particular pains have been taken with the members of the Mott Haven team in training them for the running and standing high jump and putting the shot. But the boxing, which has always been a special feature of the games, will be more than interesting from the fact that so many prominent athletes of the college have been giving a good share of their spare time for the past two months in getting...
...admitted, Yale will only be too happy, by entering the new league, to get out of the isolated position in which she has, been for some time. In regard to Columbia, Yale thinks that college will prevent the unholy combination which Yale expected would rule things with a high hand in a triangular league...