Word: pair
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said, standing on the threshold of an era of better things. In the days of our college career. We were want to consider a gymnasium as extremely well supplied with apparatus if it contained a few pairs of dumbbells and Indian clubs, with the addition of a pair of parallel bars, and a horizontal bar: now, upon entering a gymnasium fitted up according to modern ideas, one is fairly bewildered at the maze of complicated apparatus which meets the eye. Bathing facilities were rare, in the old days: now no gymnasium is complete without its copious supply of water...
...field is thus: one fullback, two half-backs, two quarterbacks, and ten forwards. The game generally played is a heavy scrimmage game, with, in some cases, an intentional tendency to looseness in the scrimmages. The most important places on a team are the quarters, and without a pair of good quarters, a team, however strongly the other positions may be filled, is weak. As soon as the scrimmage is broken, the ball is snatched by one of the quarter-backs, carried forward, or else passed back to one of the half-backs, who play well...
LOST-On Tuesday evening, December 9, a pair of pearl opera glasses, which were probably left in Memorial Hall. Will the finder please return the same to the auditor...
...LOST.-A pair of Seal Skin Gloves. Probably left in Sever, or else dropped in the yard. Will the finder please leave his address at Bartlett...
...LOST-A pair of eye glasses, in front of Boylston Hall. Will finder please leave them at Leavitt and Peirce...