Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contested by A. C. Coolidge and G. W. Kimball, both of '87. The two freshmen appeared to be very evenly matched in the first round. Coolidge's round-arm blows coming in occasionally with telling effect. Kimball gave some hard body blows. The second bout showed Coolidge puffing somewhat, but still making his longer reach tell. He showed considerable quickness. Kimball showed more skill. The third round was decidedly in Kimball's favor. Coolidge was wild and flustered and struck the air or his opponent's gloves many times. Kimball, quietly and coolly, sparred in a business-like manner, which...
...further from the straight and narrow path marked out by the traditions of the past and the desires of the present. But with that courteousness and friendly spirit that has always characterized Harvard's dealings with her sister colleges, she at once replied to the University of Pennsylvania's somewhat bombastic challenge, that she would row the descendants of the Penns. family a race on the Charles River with an eight picked from her class crews. The University of Pennsylvania did not, however, view the matter in the same light as Harvard; the idea of her challenging to the world...
...scope. Ever since that system was adopted the energies of this institution have been largely devoted to an adjustment of the several parts of the old system to suit the changed conditions of the new. What is to be the next great change in this process of growth is somewhat doubtful. The entire relegation of the arguer part of the work of the freshman year to the preparatory schools is avowedly one of these changes, but one which will probably require some years for its complete adoption. With the crying anomaly of freshman year abolished, Harvard will have advanced...
...contested rounds with an opponent of equal merit with himself. A notable instance of a similar nature occurred at a winter meeting two years ago, at which the winner of the first bout, one of the best boxers that Harvard has ever produced, being entered also to wrestle, and somewhat exhausted, was incapable of competing again on the same afternoon. The finish of the match was therefore postponed by the referee, a decision which gave general satisfaction to the spectators and which resulted at the next meeting in a much better exhibition of sparring than would otherwise have been seen...
FINAL BOUT OF THE MIDDLE-WEIGHT SPARRING.The final bout of the middleweight sparring brought out the winner of the first bout, Mr. Woodbury, and Mr. J. J. Colony who had drawn a bye. The first round was pretty evenly contested, neither man gaining any decided advantage. Woodbury seemed somewhat tired from his former bout, but did most of the leading and kept Colony on the defence most of the time. The latter, however, proved himself the better in close fighting. The second round was hotly contested, Woodbury tried several times to hit Colony a round-arm blow, but almost every...