Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fears that members more than enough would hasten to join the H. N. P. D. A., Harvard North Pole Discovery Association. The doubt might be raised, to be sure, whether the ardor of the sledgers would not cool by the time they reached the region of the tenth parallel, but in that case we should still have the shingles. Let some enthusiast take the matter in hand...
...first contest was in swinging of Indian clubs; the contestants being Messrs. Shilleto, '79, and Martin, '77. Mr. Shilleto took the prize, after a very good exhibition. A contest on the parallel bars followed, and was participated in by Messrs. Brett, '77, Livermore, L. S. S., Sigourney, '78, and Preston, '79. Much time was wasted through the lack of some order of movements, by the performance of which the relative merits of the contestants might have been more quickly decided. After much deliberation the prize was awarded to Mr. Brett. The standing high-jump was next in order...
...events of the Gymnastic Tournament of the Athletic Association at the Gymnasium, March 4, are as follows: Swinging Indian clubs; putting up dumb-bells; parallel bars; horizontal bars; vaulting, two-handed and one-handed; standing high jump; light-weight and heavy-weight sparring; light-weight and heavy-weight wrestling...
...Until the ball is kicked off no player shall be in advance of a line parallel to the line of his goal and distant from it (to be decided by the captains...
These courses are parallel. It is proposed to unite them next year, and to institute an advanced course in the same subject, to be conducted in the same general way. Whether there is at this moment open to undergraduates a course in which Constitutional Law is critically studied we are unable to say. If there be none, it is to be hoped that one will soon be supplied...