Word: light
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conditions, there can be no doubt about the position Harvard should take. Under those circumstances we should withdraw at once, and refuse to play any games whatever with Yale until she should see fit to play with us on fair terms. Princeton undoubtedly, regards the matter in the same light. Let us then stand firm for the main idea of the original proposition and take no half-way measures...
...Athletic Association has revised the programme which it first published on Tuesday, and has returned to the old system of having the light-weight sparring on one of the ladies' days. The following...
EVENTS:First Winter Meeting, Saturday, March 19th. - Heavy-weight sparring, middle-weight sparring, heavy-weight wrestling, middle-weight wrestling, light-weight wrestling, feather-weight wrestling, putting the shot...
Second Winter Meeting, Saturday, March 26th. Ladies' Day. - Two-hand fence-vault, light-weight sparring, feather-weight sparring, parallel bars, standing high jump, club swinging (legitimate), fencing...
...first Ladies' Day. It had been proposed to transfer it to the first meeting, which would have brought all the sparring on one already over-crowded day, and also would have unjustly handicapped men who might wish to enter not only the feather-weight, but also the light-weight contests. A number of arguments have been urged, to be sure, against having any boxing on a Ladies' Day, the chief of which was that no lady could with propriety witness the sport. Such an argument is, we may say, puerile; for a feather-weight match properly conducted is merely...