Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sitting. They represent the scene of parting so familiar and appropriate to Athenian tombs. The second of the reliefs represents a bearded and middle aged man, with his staff resting on his left arm. The third represents a lady, extremely beautiful, whose right arm is lying gracefully upon her lap. Like the sitting figure on an inferior funeral bas-relief now in the Central Museum of Athens, she is represented in the act of raising delicately from her breast the frail fabric in which she is enveloped...
...Davenport of Harvard (30 yds.) was second and Skillman, of the Manhattans (scratch) third. Other entries were T. P. Conneff, M. A. C., (scratch) and Harmar of Yale, 12 yds. Davenport ran a very pretty race passing all competitors, and leading for 3 laps, till the last lap, when he was passed by Lloyd. The time was very good for a 16-lap track...
...games has been arranged between the students of Yale and the men of the 21 Regiment, of Conn. The contests will be held at New Haven on the evenings of March 2 and 3. The arrangements have been extensive and the affair will be an undoubted success. A 16 lap track has been made in the armory. Two tug-of war contests, half-mile run, putting the shot, pole-vaulting, high kicking a bayonet race, standing high jump and fencing will comprise the first night's entertainment...
...before tendering their resignations. It has however seemed to the board a more satisfactory and fitting arrangement for the senior editors to resign at the beginning of the new term and of a new volume of the CRIMSON since they have other work to do in this the last lap of college course...
...statue on the Delta, clad in the exact ancient vestments; the chair in which he sat was made of oak, in exact imitation of the bronze chair of the original, and like the original, the simulated Harvard was wreathed with ivy and held and open book in his lap. The butcher had a long white apron upon him, a square cap on his head, and stood upright at one corner of the dray leaning on an immense meat-axe. The grocer-parent sported a leather apron and sat upon a barrel of spices on an opposite corner, while the cooper...