Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...into the field. Every senior will recollect with pride the plucky fight we then made for supremacy against overwhelming odds. The 2 to 1 game, the 3 to 0 game, and the 3 to 1 game, coming as they did after the disastrous 21-4 game, stand without a parallel in the history of college base-ball...
...might be more exact to say that it is an attempt to ingraft upon the Cornell stock an offshoot of the Harvard system. For it is noteworthy that only that portion of the Harvard system has been adopted which was made necessary at that university by circumstances having no parallel at Cornell. The marked feature of the Harvard plan is the elective system which permits a student from the beginning of his sophomore year to ramble at will among the intellectual meats, preserves, pastries and desserts of that grand old storehouse. A less marked feature, but one found necessary from...
...elegance of Salvini's acting and the perfect pathos of his whole representation of the tottering, grand old king, dozens of people came away feeling no more kinship with the woes of "Lear" than they would with some fate-driven hero of Greek drama. In fact, many admitted this parallel, and spoke of feeling something akin to the remote admiration that they felt for the OEdipus of Mr. Riddle when first presented to them at Cambridge, a few seasons...
...convenience of reference we publish below the general programme of events for the coming winter meetings of the H. A. A. First meeting, March 10. Events - Parallel bars, putting the shot, heavy-weight sparring, middle-weight spurring, heavy-weight wrestling, middle-weight wrestling, light-weight wrestling, feather-weight wrestling, tug-of-war, '85 and '86 (pulled on cleats, six hundred pounds, limit five minutes). Second meeting (ladies' day), March 17th. Events - Two-handed vault, club-swinging (legitimate, five minutes limit), standing high jump, running broad jump, light-weight sparring, feather-weight sparring, fencing...
...warrant. 'I know a man who had twins so much alike that the only way to tell them apart was to send one to Harvard and one to Yale. Then one came back a gentleman and one a Connecticut rough.' For native and ingenuous modesty this has its only parallel in the historic description by the Kentuckian of the guests at a Cincinnati dinner party which he had attended: 'There were present, sir, one Kentucky gentleman, whom you know, sir; one Huguenot from the Old South State; a Virginian - Poindexter stock; one Wolverine, two Buckeyes, and a Yankee...