Word: mats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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GLOBE THEATRE.- Boston "Ideals." Mat-"Bohemian Girl." Eve., "Fanchonette." Performance...
...height of 8 feet 8 1-2 inches, winning the event. This breaks the Harvard record made by Soren, '83, of 8 feet 8 1-4 inches. This event does not count in the amateur record as the custom at Harvard has been to jump off the mat. Fessenden failed at 8 feet 8 1-2 inches; Kimball at 8 feet 5 1-2 inches...
...flags, the national coat of arms and other emblems, and was occupied by two or three rows of tables. Down the hall, al right angles to the platform, ran fourteen long tables with about eighty seats apiece. For each person there was provided a pamphlet containing songs, and a mat for the beer glass. The gallery and a number of boxes under it, the latter only elevated a few steps above the floor and admirably situated to receive the benefit of the tobacco smoke, were occupied by spectators, more than half belonging to the fairer...
...Mat new Arnold lectured at Princeton last evening...
...will see a confused mass of little human bodies squatted on the floor, rocking back and forth in well-kept measure, and repeating, parrot-like, the lesson of the day, each viewing with the others as a lung-tester; while in the background, squatted likewise on the pedagogical mat, is the instructor, whose chief business seems to be to keep up the rhythmical rocking and Babel of sound to its highest pitch. This he does by occasional adjuration, strengthened by applications of a long cane, which seems to be the chief badge of his profession, and by means of which...