Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College Athletic Association to be added to this fund. The chair appointed Messrs. W. B. Parsons, '79, Columbia; and W. G. Twombley, '79, Harvard. It was then moved to omit the standing high and standing broad jumps from the programme, but after a heated discussion, the former motion was lost, the latter, however, eventually being passed. The aggregate weight of the tug-of-war teams was limited to 600 pounds. Lafayette College, of Easton, Pennsylvania, was admitted; and the Executive Committee were given power to admit McGill College, Montreal, should she apply. The following officers were then elected by acclamation...
Then on a huge car was exhibited the mechanical wonder of wonders, - the marking machine; it has the extraordinary power of always running down without requiring to be wound up. Its inventor has also discovered perpetual motion, and is now busy squaring the circle. A regiment of soldiers guarded this valuable chariot, and led the way for a bevy of proctors, attired in invisible tights, with noiseless moccasins. A vacant chair (of Theology) was carried on the back of a Zulu...