Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suggestions may be made for the management of future meetings. The first is for the better arranging of the club-swinging. Every one saw what difficulty there was in deciding the winner of this contest, and how very hard it was to draw the line between the "legitimate" and the "juggling." Then, too, the length of the performance grew a little tiresome after twenty minutes or so, and while one man used clubs weighing nearly sixteen pounds, another's were only about five pounds. Some rules to regulate these things seem to be needed. Let there be two classes according...
...insensibly fell asleep. Suddenly it seemed that the Faculty had issued a proclamation that all in the University should bring their griefs and calamities and throw them down in one heap. Holmes Field was chosen for the purpose. I took my stand in the centre, and saw with a great deal of pleasure the whole College marching, one after another, and laying down their several loads. There was a certain lady, of thin, airy shape, who seemed to have the management of the solemnity. She held a book in her hand, and I guessed her name from the warning that...
...sworn I saw her face...
...last fall; but if the Athletic Association would let it be fully understood that the course is to be five or six miles, and in no case any farther, we have no doubt that we shall see again as many Hounds assembled in front of Matthews as we saw last November...
GLOBE THEATRE. - 8 P.M. Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday, at 2. Robson and Crane, whom every one that saw the "Comedy of Errors" at the Globe last year will be glad to see again, give "Our Bachelors," a most amusing piece, to-night and to-morrow. On Monday, and during next week, "The Comedy of Errors." March 15, "The Pirates of Penzance," by Gilbert and Sullivan, will be given for the first time in Boston. The chorus of policemen is delightful...