Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...victory of '89 in the light-weight wrestling in part compensated for their defeat by the champion tug-of-war team...
...work in the second, evidently trying to make his superior weight and strength tell by beating down his opponent, and although he got in some heavy one's, Ashe managed to give a number of telling face blows. The third round was opened by a determined effort on Thomas' part and several body blows reached their mark, but Ashe's hard blows were struck on Thomas' face and their effect was more noticeable. In the midst of some hot work time was called, and the referee announced that "although very close, the bout is given to Mr. Ashe...
...league seems in many ways calculated to bring about the ends at which it aims. For people are fond of telling us that we, who are now undergraduates, will soon be prominent in American politics and journalism. If it be true that we are soon to play an important part, it is needful that we should play it well; that we should be fully awake to the important questions of the day. And there is no better way to waken us than to get us to think upon such matters for ourselves; lectures move us comparatively little, because we hear...
There is every prospect of the meeting to-day being very uninteresting. There are no entries in the heavy weight sparring and only two men are in the middle weight, which, with the tug-of-war will constitute the only enjoyable part of the meeting. The wrestling is inevitably tedious if the men are well matched, and farcical if they are not. With this gloomy outlook before us, the least the stewards can do is to make everything go off as quickly as possible, and to see that there are no unnecessary delays between the events. One more thing also...
...essentially different. The former is the object of extraordinary notoriety which he himself fosters and although attaining some excellencies never reached before he is a pronounced example of the artist striving after a coarse publicity. Mensel is a true artist. The notoriety which he enjoys is spontaneous on the part of the public, - it cannot be checked...