Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entries for the First Winter Meeting closed last night at 10 o'clock. The following is the list: Light-weight wrestling - A. E. Sterne, '87; S. Paine, '90. Middle-weight wrestling - G. L. Hunter, '90; W. T. Bowen. '87. Feather-weight wrestling - A. C. Coolidge, '87; S. Paine, 80. Heavy-weight wrestling - W. T. Bowen, '87; A. F. Holden, '88. Heavy-weight sparring - G. M. Ashe, L. S.; F. G. Curtis, '90. Middle-weight-sparring, G. M. Ashe, L. S.; F. G. Curtis, '90. Feather-weight spar ring - A. C. Coolidge, '87; Clement, '88; L. Thayer, '88; E. Grew. Putting...
...such a vigorous course of daily exercise this year as has characterized the work of the candidates for past nines. It is still an open question if very strict training is of such great importance as many people think, and Capt. Willard decided early in the season that a light but systematic course was the one to be adopted. This course has been varied but little during the year and is substantially as follows: Three times a week the game of handball is practiced in the cage by squads of four men from fifteen to twenty minutes...
...Droppers' essay on "Robert Louis Stevenson" presents a mature and careful criticism of the works of that gifted writer. The style, a little involved at first, becomes clearer and more forcible as the essay progresses, and is marred by but a very few inelegancies. The light in which Stevenson's works are regarded is eminently just; and though the admiration bestowed on them admits of many qualifications, their inspiring cheerfulness and whole someness cannot be denied...
Will all who intend to enter the light and feather-weight sparring please meet at 28 Grays at 7.30 this evening...
...better several answers in strong support of our present cheer. The arguments or impressions of the writers are hardly interesting, except from what they say of the origin of the "Rah!" cheer, as follows: "In 1864 the college turned out, probably for the first time, in the campaign torch-light procession in support of Lincoln. On that occasion, in order to have a designating cheer, the 'Rah!' was adopted. Probably it had been known in college before, much as the CRIMSON cheer is known here now. Perhaps it originated in the custom of cheering the name of every...