Word: paralleled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...negative side, it was argued that a university club would do very little to break up cliques and factions in the college. It would not even reduce the friction between them. The club would be the scene of political intrigues, which would be without a parallel outside of those notorious faction fights, which have done so much "to make Yale infamous." At the present time, there is less hostile feeling between different societies at Harvard, considering its size, than at any other college in America! Such a club as the one proposed would not tend to promote sociability among...
Second Winter Meeting, Saturday, March 26th. Ladies' Day. - Two-hand fence-vault, light-weight sparring, feather-weight sparring, parallel bars, standing high jump, club swinging (legitimate), fencing...
...prize for general excellence will be given in the following events: Parallel bars, flying rings, horizontal bar, running high jump, two-hand vault, tumbling...
...contrivance for starting a tug-of-war has been placed in the gymnasium to be tested. It consists of a flat board, across which two upright parallel boards are fixed, about six inches apart; the rope lies across the opening between these boards at right angles, and is pressed down between them and held firm in its place by a lever, fastened at one end to the floor...
...winter games at Yale will take place in about a month, although the date has not yet been definetely settled. The following is a list of the contests: Horizontal bar, parallel bar, rope climbing, running high jump, vaulting, fencing, boxing and wrestling. The last-named event is divided into four classes as follows: Heavy weights, over 158 pounds; middle weights, between 140 to 148 pounds; light weights, between 120 to 140 pounds; feather weights, under 120 pounds...