Word: stick
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feet 2 inches. The contestants went over easily, and the bar was gradually raised. Bachelder withdrew at 4 feet 7 3/4 inches, having failed to go over at that height. Edmands and Soren were applauded for the ease and grace with which they jumped, and as the stick went up inch by inch all the contestants were applauded. Morison and Soren retired at 5 feet 4 1/4 inches. Denniston was awarded the cup, with a record of 5 feet 5 3/4 inches...
...obtain in Montreal the best quality of lacrosse sticks, and bring them here for $1.25 apiece, provided I take a dozen or more. If, then, those gentlemen who desire them will leave their names and the price at 50 Matthews before March 30, letting me know at the same time whether they use right or left sticks, I can promise them the best quality of Canadian stick, such as is used by the Montreal Lacrosse Club...
...next contest was the Standing High Jump, for which Batchelder, '83; Soren, '83; Edmands, S. S.; Morison, '83; and Denniston, '83, entered. Soren jumped so easily at the lower rounds as to excite laughter in the audience. At the third trial Denniston failed to go over the stick, it being then-at 20 inches. Batchelder then withdrew, while Morison succeeded in going over in his third attempt. At 4 feet 5 1/2 inches Morison took the stick with him after three trials, and then withdrew. Soren and Edmands were left; then Edmands failed. After raising the bar three rounds, Soren...
...scene, and, mingling fearlessly in the thickest of the melee, succeeded in appropriating to his exclusive use the much disputed cane; after which he proceeded to lay down the law in plain language, and ordered the classes to disperse. The freshmen, however, soon appeared again with another stick, and proceeded to march through the town. The sophs followed and made two or three desperate attempts to obtain it, but in vain; and the victorious freshmen carried it triumphantly through the main streets and deposited it safely in a room of one of their men. The affair was carried no further...
...tell you what I mean to do. Leave off my lazy habits in the first place, smoke no cigars, drink no wine, own no armchair, and stick to the law, Tom, without a poney. I've had an easy time in college, and have enjoyed well the 'Otium cum dignitate' - the learned leisure of a scholar's life - always despising digging, you know, and what with ticking, screwing and deading, am candidate for a piece of parchment tomorrow, certifying that I am admitted to be by all A. B., which being interpreted is A Booby, a passport all the world...