Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Parallel bars, Yale...
...events to be contested are the potato race, ten yards dash, spring board leap, parallel bars, high jump, pole vault, putting the shot, tumbling...
There has been for some time a growing desire among a considerable number of men in college for instruction in the more difficult gymnastic work, such as exercises on the parallel bars and on the horse. For the benefit of these men a class in heavy gymnastics has been formed. Mr. Max Kreidel of the Boston Turn Verein, who took first place in parallel bar work at the winter meeting of the Athletic Association last year, has been engaged to lead the class. He will be at the Gymnasium every day from...
...confess that it is with more and more diffidence that I rise every year to have my little talk with you about books and the men that have written them. If I remember my terrestrial globe rightly, one gets into his temperate zone after passing the parallel of forty, and arrives at that shall I call it Sheltered Haven of Middle Age, when, in proportion as one is more careful of the conclusions he arrives at, he is less zealous in his desire that all mankind should agree with him. Moreover, the longer one studies, the more thoroughly does...
Brooklyn tomorrow evening. The exhibition will be under the charge of Dr. W. G. Anderson and H. S. Anderson of the Yale gymnasium, Professor Goldie of Princeton and Professor Andrews of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. The events will include acts on the horizontal and parallel bars, club swinging, trapeze, balancing ladders, rings, pyramids, acrobatics, horse, tumbling, fencing, and general gymnastics. There will also be competitive wrestling bouts, heavy, middle and light weights, between Yale and Princeton...