Word: master
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...slow hunt" the entire pack will be kept together from start to finish, except where the word is given by the master for a race in the finish on the home...
...slow hunt" the pack shall be under the direction of the Master of the Hunt, who shall also act as peacemaker. During the chase, each member of the pack must keep within calling distance of the Master, until the latter shall give the signal for the "break ;" they may then run as they please, still following the scent...
...member of the pack refusing obedience to the Master in the discharge of his duties, renders himself ineligible for a prize...
...last meeting of the Athletic Committee of the faculty they decided to fill the position of sparring master at the gymnasium by appointing E. J. Ferris, the well-known teacher of the manly art, to take the place made vacant by J. E. Mellen, who left Cambridge about nine months ago to take charge of a gymnasium in Rochester, N. Y. The matter has been under consideration for some time and it was not without careful investigation that the committee decided to give the place to Mr. Ferris, the successful one of several candidates for the position. Mr. Ferris...
...advantage they can. This has never been done here, and many of us have pointed with pride to the contrast, as showing the more gentlemanly tone of Harvard athletics. But we really lose much by this way of practicing, and ought to give it up. Habit is a strong master, and the intense excitement of an important match makes it all the more important that all the conditions of daily practice should be made as exactly as possible those of a match. Men get into the habit of passing just a little ahead ; of claiming downs by merely resting their...