Word: roped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very tame affair. '88 got the drop by about two inches and by three or four heaves during the allotted five minutes, managed to gain four inches more. The freshmen were unable to gain an inch and time was called with '88 in possession of six inches of rope. The two teams were composed as follows: '88, 1. E. A. Pease, 2. J. R. Purdon, 3. P. Chase, anchor, F. G. Balch; '89, 1. G. L. Hunter, 2. W. L. Munro. 3. W. G. Rantoul, anchor, G. Perry...
...between Tech. '89, and Harvard, '88, was a dismal surprise to the Harvard men present. Tech. got the drop by two inches, and gained another inch on one of Ewald's first attempts to heave, '88 did not regain any of this lost ground notwithstanding her phenomenal rope team, and Tech. had 3 inches at the end of the five minutes. The result is due to the extreme pluck of the Tech. men and the slowness and inexperience of the '88 anchor. The Harvard team was as follows: Ewald, Chase, Purdon and Pease...
Third meeting. - Running high jump, rope climbing, flying rings, pole vault, running high kick, tumbling, horizontal bar, final tug-of-war. A cup will be given for general excellence in the following events: Parallel bars, flying rings, horizontal bar, two hand vault, tumbling, running high jump...
...abstract and metaphysical subjects, has given us thoroughly practical results, while Ricardo, a successful business man, deals almost entirely with the abstractions of the science. The writer speaks very highly of Cairnes, the latest of the great writers on this subject. "Mr. Cairnes," he says, "was an economic tight-rope walker; he could go with a cool head through airy spaces, where other men became dizzy or fell to the ground. And at the same time, he had the Englishman's sturdy respect for facts, with more than the ordinary Englishman's willingness to acquaint himself with social systems different...
...being gathered, it will probably become still more prominent. In this country these titles have degenerated into empty forms with far less meaning than the Prof. we see prefixed to the names of sleight of hand performers, roller-skaters, tight-rope walkers, etc. As President Gilman says, they have become the 'sham and shame' of American colleges. Every so-called university and college, no matter what its standing, the 'University of Cohosh' as well as Johns Hopkins or Harvard, has the power of conferring these degrees. To the outside world, that received from one is as good as the from...