Word: third
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...instance, given three judges and two ends of a piece of tape, problem, to place the judges so that the two ends of the tape shall be supported. The Committee have solved this by a master stroke, by placing two judges at one end of the tape, and the third at the other; but it seems to us that they have left out of consideration the feelings of the third judge. Isolated at one end of the tape, he is obliged to see his companions conversing at the other. This difficulty so enterprising a body as the Committee should meet...
...weights (teams of 6 men), each man to weigh less than 150 lbs., men to weigh at Wood's Gymnasium, 4 and 6 East Twenty-eighth Street, April 3, at 8 P.M.; military tug-of-war (by special request) between company teams from the Seventh, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third regiments, N. G. S. N. Y. (teams of 6 men). Each team shall be allowed two substitutes. Saturday, at 1 o'clock, P. M., there will be a four-hour race, go as you please, open to any amateur who has never, in an open race, beaten...
...Burr succeeded in getting the better of his antagonist. But during the second round both men grew rather excited, and then science gave way to frequent locks and heavy battering, in which Mr. Guiteras, apparently the cooler of the two, got in a succession of powerful upper-cuts. The third round was a repetition of the preceding, though more even. Two or three times the ushers were obliged to separate the sparrers, to the amusement of the audience. After a long consultation the judges decided the bout in favor of Mr. Guiteras, who will finally contest with Mr. Gaston tomorrow...
...were interrupted by my guide. "This is the hall in which the students formerly exercised; but when athletics became so very unpopular, the Faculty, in response to the universal wish, converted it into a dancing-hall. We have ten electives in Dancing. The hall is now ready for the third assembly in Dancing 8, to take place this evening. This elective is open to Seniors only, and is very select." "But," said I, "is there no trouble about partners?" "Not a bit. We have the elite of Boston and Cambridge. In Dancing I, however, open only to Freshmen, the Goodies...
...Adjutant; B. S. Turpin, '80, Sergeant-Major; C. H. Pew, '80, Quartermaster-Sergeant. Company A has elected the following officers: J. S. Mitchell, '79, First Lieutenant; A. H. Bowen, '79, Second Lieutenant; E. H. Squibb, Medical School, First Sergeant; C. F. Squibb, '81, Second Sergeant; F. B. Hall, '80, Third Sergeant...