Word: light
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...average weight of Yale's crew of '81 was 183 pounds, of last year's 160 1-2, a striking example of the change from heavy to light crews. - Yale News...
...GersdorffSignorita Seraphita (Nee Binks), a light-headed, light-footed damsel, who dances her way into all hearts...
...bring out a large audience at the Second Winter Meeting. This meeting, like the one the week before, proved to be of unusual excellence. The interest centred in the sparring. Never do we remember of seeing three such pretty and well-contested bouts in the feather-weight. The light-weight, too, was contested with exceptional science. All the events were good, because the contestants were evenly matched. It was a surprise to many that the '87 tug-of-war team should make such a good fight against the always victorious...
...LIGHT-WEIGHT SPARRING.As will be easily remembered, G. M. Ashe, L. S., and W. Austin, '87, tried in the light-weight sparring last year. Saturday they were the only entries for the event, which was consequently decided in one bout. Never, perhaps, in the memory of undergraduates has so much interest been manifested in an event at the Winter Meetings. The expectations of the audience were realized. Both men showed much improvement over last year, Austin in using his left hand, and Ashe in the use of his right...
...Second Winter Meeting was as creditable to the able management of the H. A. A. as was the meeting a week ago. The feather-weight sparring was extremely interesting, and so was the light-weight contest. But we wish that a little more "science" had been displayed in the latter, while retaining the same amount of vigor and pluck. We believe that while boxing may be pleasant for our lady friends to witness, "slugging," or any approach to it, should vigorously be excluded, and, therefore, we hope that next year some method may be contrived by which none but feather...