Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every winter at the Union and other gymnasiums. For this reason every Harvard athlete should take pride in making it as good as possible, so as to compare well with exhibitions of like character. There does not seem to be a prospect of many entries on the Horizontal and Parallel Bars. This is probably due to the fact that because one or two men excel on these pieces of apparatus, every one else thinks that there will be no chance for him, and therefore he will not enter. Now this is just the wrong spirit for a man to have...
...purpose. Despairing of understanding anything in their paper, I resolved that the examiners should understand nothing in my book. So, being acquainted with Choctaw (a language which closely resembles, yet is totally different from Greek), I wrote in this tongue stories of Indian mythology which I thought might be parallel to the Greek myths. When the examination was over, I walked out feeling that, whatever the examiners might say, they could not accuse me of being commonplace. Well, tempus fugit (notice my exact knowledge of Latin quantity). One day I received a notification commonly yclept a summons. Veni, vidi, vici...
...four-handed court, 4 1-2 feet within the side lines and parallel with them, are drawn the service side-lines, and the service side-lines extend only to these lines; and within these lines the service must be delivered...
...Parallel Bars O. Mueller...
March 20. 1. Heavy-weight sparring; 2. Middle-weight wrestling; 3. Feather-weight sparring; 4. Light-weight wrestling; 5. Fencing; 6. Vaulting, two hands; 7. Parallel bars...