Word: phalanxes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...away. This saved the bowl's life. For now the Meds had come and were doing their best to take the bowl to Medical Hall. When the college men saw that the Meds were gaining steadily they combined their forces. With united vigor they hurled themselves against the advancing phalanx. But in vain! On and on it moved until the bottom of the stone steps leading to Medical Hall had been reached. Here the hottest fighting of the day was done. The college men collected their forces at the top of the embankment and charged from above, creating great slaughter...
...getting its men together. The classes then form in opposing columns at some little distance from each other. Each man locks arms with the man on either side and places his hands on the shoulders of the man in front of him. In this way they form a solid phalanx, four abreast and from twenty to thirty deep. The freshmen are helped to form by the juniors and many of the latter aid in filling up the rear. When the lines are fully formed, they advance slowly step by step until within a few paces of one another, when...
...skin is called an Aesthesiometer. The degree of sensibility is measured by the distance between the points at which they can be recognized as two. The following, in millimeters, are the three shortest distances at which the two points can be distinguished: Tip of tongue, 1.1; third phalanx of finger, palmar surface, 2.3; red part of lips...
...pride of every student is the University Phalanx, which is a military organization of the students. It is a well disciplined regiment of young men from 20 to 30 years of age, and it is the pet of the army. The Phalanx is not under arms constantly; some years, as in '82 and '83, it does no drilling of any importance, but whenever there is any prospect of war, as in the present crisis in the East, it resumes its active discipline; and the university has just suspended most of the lectures temporarily, in order to allow the Phalanx...