Word: ring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...night before college opens the sophomore and freshman classes repair to the Hopkins Grammar School lot, where the ceremonies attendant upon the rush take place. Under the supervision of the seniors, a ring is formed and the exercises begin. Wrestling is indulged in first by the light-weights, then by the middle-weights, and lastly by the heavy-weights. After each of these contests, the victorious man is elevated to the shoulders of his classmates, but as the other side do their best to prevent this, he is soon pulled down. Then follows the rush proper. The freshmen take...
...counted a larger proportion in base ball, in lacrosse, or even in the usual course of regular gymnastic training. But no comment is too harsh to represent the ordinary estimate of foot-ball. It is "brutal," it is "ungentlemanly," it is "closely allied to the manners of the prize ring," it is "barbaric," it is "dangerous;" and no representation of friend or lover is strong enough to do away with the rudeness of impression which a first sight of its tremendous activity conveys to the unused intelligence of one beholding it for the first time...
Haye's The Jesuits Ring...
Haye's The Jesuits Ring...
Haye's The Jesuits Ring...