Word: roped
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mark on the rope to be over the centre crease when the word "Heave!" is given, and the team hauling that mark over the crease on its own side to be the winners...
...between Holden Chapel and Hollis Hall, and will be open at 5. After the exercises at the Tree, and during the remainder of the evening, a ticket will be required of every gentleman, or of gentlemen accompanied by ladies, entering the portion of the Yard enclosed by the rope...
...Nunn and Alger played well for the Beacons in the field; while Moore carried off the honors at the bat. The element of the "unwashed" predominated so largely among the audience, and made itself so decidedly objectionable, that the officers of the Base-Ball Club have decided to rope the field in and have police-men in attendance at the game to-morrow. Below is the score...
...take notes and sit with any ease in Upper Holden is wellnigh impossible; while the difficulty of showing engravings and illustrations to the class is very great. This leads to another idea. There is no reason why the recitation-rooms should not be made attractive. If rope-matting be out of the question, why should not appropriate pictures and maps, at least, be hung upon the walls? Diagrams, plans, and models in the scientific lecture-rooms would be a constant instruction through the eye; pictures and bronzes in the classical and fine arts rooms would be both useful and ornamental...
...boat-house the inside boat was leading by half a length, and the position was unchanged at the stake-boats. In turning, the outside boat was carried by the tide against the anchoring rope, and before it could get clear, the leading boat was several lengths ahead. This seemed to dishearten the '79 oarsmen, and they withdrew, leaving the other boat to row over the last half of the course alone. The winners of this race pulled in good form, and succeeded in getting their boat through the water at a good rate...