Word: parallels
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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...
...Parallel Bars, Bachelder, L. S. will enter. In Putting the Shot Homans '85, Curtis, L. S,, Chamberlain and Clarke, '86, will contest. In the Two-hand Vault, Batchelder. L. S., and Atkinson, '85, will enter. In the Standing High Jump there will probably be a large number of entries, among them being Batchelder, L. S., Rogers, '87, Fessenden. '86. Chamberlain, '86, and J. D. Fiske, '86. All the old men have signified their intention of going in to the Horizontal Bar contest, namely Dudly and Osgood, 87, Batchelder, L. s., and Faulkner, '86. Among the contestants for the Running High...
...remedy for this seems to be as follows: That the field be marked off with lines parallel to the goal line five yards apart; that in all cases of lining out the ball be carried to the five-yard line next nearer the goal of the side having the ball; that the snapper-back here take possession of the ball; that the teams then line out on the next five-yard lines toward their own goals, respectively. The opposing lines are then ten yards apart, with the snapper-back midway between them. This plan would prevent the players from remaining...
...indoor meeting of the Technology Athletic Club will take place at the gymnasium wither on the 13th or 20th of this month. The events will be as follows: Rumming high jump, standing high jump, running high kick, parallel bars, horizontal bars, fencing, fence baud, putting sling, Indian clubs, and middle, high and teacher weight sparring...
...something of originality in it in the line of decoration. Even the most indifferent man will have something which he has labored over and which he wants his visitors to appreciate. Decorative art on college rooms is indeed a branch of art by itself, and finds no parallel anywhere else. College rooms are really an interesting study, and visitors to Cambridge are fortunate if they be friends of any students...