Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...held Friday evening, were T. Richardson, '94, F. L. DeLong, L. S., Y. J. Oliver, '94. and R. Stone, '93. In the trial bouts on Saturday, DeLong made 5 points to Richardson's 3. Oliver and Stone were very evenly matched, but the first managed to make the deciding thrust and won, 5 to 4. In the final bout between Oliver and DeLong, there was considerable excitement. Oliver scored two points in succession, then DeLong made two, and Oliver immediately afterward again scored twice. This brought the points to 4 to 2, and it seemed as If Oliver would...
...small attendance at the Chapel yesterday and Rev. Edward Everett Hale gave an informal talk on temptations. The great secret of successful resistance of temptation is immediate resistance. Christ did not hesitate but said at once: "Get thee behind Me Satan." The accounts of Christ's temptations are often thrust in the back-ground, yet men are tempted in the same way today. The temptation of the Pope to plunge nations into war that he may regain his temporal power resembles the temptation on the mountain; the temptation of business men to combine and raise the price of grain...
...Mills bill and their present attitude in Congress, After their opposition to the McKinley bill and declaring that they would work for tariff reform, they are trying to force a bill worse than their '88 bill, The Democratic party does not carry out the measures which it has thrust forward so eagerly...
...lectures should stop promptly on the hour. Men go to lectures and recitations with the understanding that they will be kept an hour, and when they find that they are being kept longer they grow restless and inattentive. The days are crowded so full now with the extra hour thrust in that the most of us have all the lecture room work we want without any additions of the sort described here. Let the bell be rung at one o'clock and at half-past four to remind those instructors who are disposed to run over their time that there...
...Yale's refusal to row a match with Cornell is not most unsportsmanlike, nor more unsportsmanlike, nor at all unsportsmanlike. Yale's aquatic ambition has for many years been limited to her annual match with Harvard, and her occasional races with other colleges have been unsought, and fairly thrust upon her. Yale has never made any overtures or expressed any desire for a match with Cornell, and it would be much more justifiable to call Cornell's challenge impertinent than Yale's refusal unsportsmanlike...