Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Among the additions to be made next year, we notice a course in Homeric philology, designed for persons intending to become teachers; four courses in German; one in Mathematics; one in General Entomology (Natural History 2); and an additional course in Music. In History, 6 and 7 will be parallel courses, the former treating the history of the United States from 1789 to 1840 from the Democratic standpoint, while the latter course goes over the same ground, but takes the Federalist side. The work History 1 will be continued through two years. The whole number of elective courses that will...
...this morning entries had been made as follows: Fencing. Messrs. Stebbins, C. L. Perkins, Barlow, Ryerson. - Parallel Bars. Messrs. F. W. Thayer, Bowen, Livermore, Tyng, Ellis, Brett. - Heavy-Weight Wrestling. Messrs. Wetherbee, Simmons, Kessler, E. F. Thomas. - Running High Jump. Messrs. Thayer, Latham. - Heavy-Weight Sparring. Messrs. Bryant, M. F. Stiles, Van Stow, Cory...
Saturday, March 24. - 1. Parallel bars. 2. Heavy-weight wrestling. 3. Running high jump. 4. Club swinging. 5. Unfinished bouts...
...Keene, '79. Vaulting (two hands): A. H. Latham, '77; F. W. Thayer and J. A. Wetherbee, '78; F. B. Keene, '79; and J. P. Livermore, L. S. S. Fencing: A P. Cushing, '78; C. L. Perkins, '79; C. B. Cory and J. H. Stebbins, L. S. S. Parallel bars: F. W. Thayer, '78, and J. T. Bowen, '79. Middle-weight wrestling: F. W. Thayer and J. A. Wetherbee, '78. Standing high jump: A. H. Latham, '77; F. W. Thayer and J. A. Wetherbee, '78; F. B. Keene, '79. Light-weight sparring: A. M. Jones, '78. Heavy-weight sparring: John Bryant...
...heavy gymnastics, numbering seventy-eight members, is divided into four sections according to strength. Twenty-eight marks are required to enter the first division, twenty-two the second, seventeen the third, and twelve the fourth. The basis for assigning marks is as follows: "The applicant places himself between the parallel bars, resting upon his hands with arms straight. He then lowers himself by bending the arms until they are in a flexed condition, then rises again. One mark is allowed each time he rises. The flexors of the arms and some of the chest-muscles are tested on the ladder...