Word: round
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Saturday's programme was the light-weight wrestling. At 2.15 o'clock, T. C. Craig, '87, and A. T. Dudley, '87, took the floor. After a short but hard struggle, Dudley got his arms about his opponent's neck and won the fall. Time, 30s. In the second round, Dudley lifted Craig off his feet but could not get him on his back. A moment later Craig got a body hold on Dudley and threw him, the latter striking heavily on his side. The bout was given to Craig. Time...
Craig and Dudley next appeared for their third round, Dudley evidently none the better for his severe fall in the second round. After some three minutes work, in which neither seemed to get any decided advantage, they locked and fell together against one of the benches, Dudley striking his head. Upon this last misfortune Dudley was obliged to withdraw and the fall and bout were given to Craig. Time...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In the beginning of the year, the instructor in sophomore themes conceived the commendable idea of passing the themes round to the students for perusal and criticism. This was to have been kept up throughout the year, unless it proved too complicated. One set of themes was thus distributed, and no more. That was all. No word of explanation was offered in regard to the sudden change. Now, there is no doubt that most of the criticisms were absurd and severe, and probably did neither the writer nor the men of whose work it was written...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - What fallacy so superficial is so generally received as the one most commonly advanced against a college education? It is urged that a young man's chances of success will not be enhanced by a course at college because a large majority of the "round table," and Cleveland, Bayard, Sherman, Carlisle and a host of other celebrities are "self-made men." Suppose that there are in the United States 10,000,000 men above the average age of a graduate, and that 100,000 of them are college alumni. Now applying the common test to Congress...
...been reported that Clement, '88, was obliged to retire before the end of the second round of the feather-weight sparring at the New York Athletic Club last Wednesday night. He sparred all these rounds and was especially praised for his scientific work by the New York papers...