Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Twenty men came out for the first practice in bayonet fencing at the Randolph Gymnasium yesterday afternoon, and were drilled by Coach Leslabay in the guard, advance and retire, as well as front and rear passes, right and left step and point thrust...
...with hickory and filled with an invincible spirit. After a few minutes of contest, the outcome was clearly evident, but play was continued until the Freshmen had driven seven goals where they belonged, past the Yale guard. Strangely enough, the Elis were unable to connect with a fortunate puck-thrust, and they stood at the poor end of a bad score...
Since moderate regulation has failed to check the coal consumption sufficiently, drastic action is resorted to. Whether the University is directly affected, we do not yet know. Some branches certainly will be, and it is quite possible that the entire College may have holidays thrust upon it. In such an event we expect a long weekend, fewer classes, and a confused schedule. The inconvenience created would certainly be considerable, yet necessity may be greater. Harmful as such action is, however, it seems the lesser of two evils. If we are forced to suspend work temporarily, we do so that more...
...helm of the University have decided to give the special examinations for the Yaphankers during the time of the Christmas vacation. This effectively keeps the future soldiers from seeing their families and friends before going to war. It seems an unnecessary parting thrust at the student as he leaves; it gives him a decidedly bad taste of Harvard to carry with him through life. These examinations could be a week earlier; such a favor would be highly appreciated...
...then the throng having collected, representative of the South's chivalry and the South's courage, the mob thrust their victim into a small steel cage from which there was no escape. They bound him by chains at the hands and feet. Lest he, no doubt, should, although a member of the despised race and one against thousands, put to rout these courageous Southern gentlemen. When they had bound him, the chains being hard and the steel bars strong, they tortured him; the mob, with the fiendish tortures which from time immemorial have been the pastime of savages. And when...