Word: ringers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Akron, Ohio. A horseshoe pitcher uses two horseshoes, each weighing 2½ Ibs. He tosses them at an iron stake 40 ft. away, protruding 8 in. above a bed of potters clay. Then his opponent does likewise. The shoe that lands nearest the stake scores 1 point; a ringer 3 points; a double ringer 6 points. The first player to score 50 points wins the game. In championship matches, calipers and a straight edge are used to determine accurately which horseshoe is nearest the stake. But in casual bouts a player often shouts: "My horseshoe is two fingers nearer than...
...interview which accompanied the article, Headmaster Slack defended himself, making to the B. Y. R. the distinction he might have had to make to the little boys on the losing teams-that between a special student and a ringer. He asserted, in effect, that since the Battle of Waterloo had been lost many times on the playing fields of Massee, he had been advised to strengthen the school's prowess in sport by judicious advertising. His advertisement had been printed "for some time," and rallied to Mr. Slack's service, he declared, "eight fine fellows" (among them...
...among themselves. "That guy, how does he get in?" they will demand of the spring sky, of the autumn clouds. The Massee School's headmaster, should he hear them, would doubtless reply: "Why, that boy is a special student." "Student, yeah," the little ones will savagely rejoin. "A ringer, that's what he is! A ringer...
...most interesting bits of the Society's work while Professor Palmer was president, was connected with Mr. Jones, the bell-ringer, who performed his duties without missing a single day. Many attempts were made by students to thwart him, but he managed to supply an extra clapper, or to break out the ice in the bell, or do whatever else was necessary. When the bell became cracked, he asked the University to sell it to him and it was given to him as a token of his services. He kept it in his house for some years, until the Memorial...
...does not expect, of course, to find Professor Palmer shouting "Reinhardt" about the Yard in the evenings; that is because this particular tradition is not especially worth while perpetuating. Nor is Mr. Conant the bell-ringer likely to awake some winter morning to find the clapper of his bell frozen to the sides by President Lowell, for obviously, this also is one of those jovial performances which, genuinely humorous the first time, rapidly becomes mere routine, without any better excuse for itself than an empty and eventually boresome precedent. There is, never theless, a rich and colorful store of Harvard...