Word: styles
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...certain that Captain Russell and his team-mates will be forced to show their best. Captain Pfleiger of Yale, who last year beat Captain Russell in two out of their three matches of the season, has been fencing brilliantly this year, and has changed his style of an open guard, formerly used by him, to the close guard as adopted by Captain Russell. The match between these two men neither of whom have been defeated this year, will be watched with interest by all followers of fencing, as both will undoubtedly be leading factors in the intercollegiate championships. Tiaza...
Miss Hazel Kirk, as Countess Drubetzkoy, sets off the leading lady's part to perfection. Hers is the bouncing vivacious style and she first draws attention in an unusual dance of the silk pantelet sort. Later, her dancing is less vivid, but always it draws applause...
...nearly all, indeed, who have most completely mastered the literary art,--have had their periods of aureate preciousness beside which anything in the undergraduate poetry of the present pales into insignificance. Little is ever gained by protests against too much attention to technic. In a time when almost any style of delivery is tolerated provided the ball cuts the plate, such a protest seems particularly inopportune...
After having used the English style of rigging on their shells for three years, the crews of the University of Pennsylvania, at the suggestion of Coach Wright, will test out the American swivel oarlock system this spring. A new eight-oared shell fitted with swivel locks is being built, but the old shells rigged with thole pins will not yet be discarded...
...thole pin system of rigging long antedates the American style and has never been supplanted in England. It was revived in this country by Coach Guy Nickalls of the Yale crew, and has been used ever since by that college. If Coach Wright should decide that the swivel locks are more advantageous for his crew than the present system, Yale will be the only college in the United States which still holds to the thole pins Neither Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, nor the University has ever adopted the foreign rigging, but it was tried at Pennsylvania under the regime of Coach...