Word: sword
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...final bout of fencing between Lander, '86 and Isham, R. G. was won by Isham, 7 points to 2. This bout was hardly what it should have been, Isham's tactics being much the better suited to broad sword contest, since he depended more upon his strength than his skill to defeat his adversary...
...announcement that, "By the Regulations, students are forbidden to have any unauthorized books or papers in an examination-room." This is a very sensible announcement, surely, in view of the widespread interest which has of late been aroused upon this subject. If any student seeks a flaming sword to hold him in the path of right, here it is, two-edged at that. While some disciples (or leaders?) of reform are for abolishing that servile committee of surveillance, the proctors, and while, moreover, this reform has already been tried with success in some of the higher courses, perhaps...
...drinking customs probably "Pledging" is the oldest. By this custom the man pledged arose and stood, with drawn sword, near the one who drank, to protect him from the knives of his enemies. Now a-days he generally takes a social glass himself at the same time. From the idea of pledging, "health" drinking was easily evolved In drinking a health to a Roman lady one cup was taken for each letter in her name, - a performance often attended with disasterous consequences. Giving a toast is synonymous with drinking a health, for the former took its name from the custom...
...always with us." The genial face of John, that unique example of Catholic "Orangeman:" the thought-furrowed brow of General Pratt: the "eggs and toast" of the Holly Tree: and the nocturnal journeys to that Paradise whence Adam has not yet been expelled, and at whose gates no flaming sword checks the wanderer, save, it may be, that metaphorical cutlass, the "11 o'clock law," - each and all of these we greet with renewed respect and affection, and then look about us to ascertain the cause for the slight feeling of vacuity that we, as a student body, experience...
...novel feature of the meeting. When Fogg had made his last hitch and kick and the horizontal bar contest was still in progress. Reynolds, C. S., and Lempe, M. S., the two principals, and their seconds, Furness '88, and Sternburgh, '87, came out with their long dueling swords. The principals were protected with head masks and leather guards on their right arms. The seconds had on caps of different German university student corps, and wore little aprons of the same color as their cap bands. Three rounds of a minute each were fought. Each time a second would start...