Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exactly thirty-six minutes past two Bachelder, Morison and Denniston, the three contestants for the first event, the parallel bars, entered and were greeted with applause. Each performed several difficult feats, and all showed that improvement had been made since last winter's meetings by a year of hard practice. Denniston withdrew in a few minutes, and he was followed a moment later by Morison. The prize consequently was awarded to Bachelder, and the second place to Morrison...
...Parallel Bars, Messrs. G. B. Morrison, T. C. Batchelder and A. C. Denniston, all from '83, have entered...
...athletic assembly, and the question of winter athletics was brought upon the board. After some discussion, it was voted that athletics be held some time in March, and a committee was appointed to make arrangements. The programme, as made up so far, will contain boxing, fencing, horizontal and parallel bar practice, vaulting and, perhaps...
...glad to know that both these plans are now being followed by some instructors. The most important of the electives not susceptible of such treatment are the honor courses in Greek and Latin Composition. And we fail to see why these could not be connected with the parallel courses in translation with a twofold advantage in both decreasing the amount of work and increasing the results. After all these have been considered, there still remain, however, a number of one-hour courses whose relative importance may be very fairly represented by the time assigned to them. Now it appears...
...soon as I entered the city, I noticed that the sides of the streets, being parallel, were continually meeting and tripping up unwary travellers. I soon learned, however, to walk with my legs crossed, as all the natives had to do. My eyes troubled me a great deal; the eyes of the natives were set exactly parallel, so that the peculiarities of parallel lines were overcome. I have no time to speak of the city, - of the grand public buildings, with all their sides parallel; of the reservoirs in the lowest part of the town, with the water carefully walled...