Word: spar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attention to this science. As if by magic, one versed in this wonderful science can look through solid rock and tell what lies hidden far within. The tool of the petrographist is a polarizing microscope, that is, an ordinary compound microscope in which two Nicol's prisms of Iceland spar are placed at a certain distance apart...
...Baxter, '83, will probably be unable to spar in the championship meeting at New York in February, owing to a severe injury to his right hand...
...quite casually that, returning from a political debate at the coffee-house, he and six friends had fallen in with two watchmen who, as the result of this encounter, turpe solum tetigere mento. Even the decorous Charles Greville tells us how, after dinning at White's, he had a spar with some bobbies in the Haymarket, and scampered home, leaving his hat in their possession, when they had sprung their rattle and got reinforcements. These were discreditable traits in English manners. They were always incomprehensible to foreigners, though foreigners generally had, and still have, much more cause to hate their...
President Lowell in his report to the H. A. A. said that he hoped there would be more interest taken in the sparring this year, and that there would be several contestants for each weight. We sincerely hope this may be so, as the sparring adds greatly to the interest in our winter meetings. As all the winners of last year's prizes have left college there is a particularly good opening for beginners, and we trust that a large number of men will take advantage of it. More men perhaps are kept out of sparring for fear of "making...
...Richmond will not spar in the winter meeting this year. It is to be hoped that Messrs. Lee, Biddle and Pendleton, who made the middle-weight sparring so interesting last year, will decide to enter again this year...