Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman football squad, will instruct the University's first boxing team. He is assisted by Joe Reardon who is conducting classes at 2, 3, 4, and 4.45 o'clock. At present these classes are open to beginners who wish to acquaint themselves with the fundamentals of the game. Touch and shadow boxing will prepare the men for more strenuous battling later...
...gathered from this account, and rightly so, that the author has the urbanity of a humorist. But this urbanity, an Addisonian touch of gentility, does not, as might be thought, drag the statements of the writer down to a mere Thetorical smoothness. He does what he sets out to do, and does it with literary excellence...
...Prof. Hillyer's followers--in fact all readers who are in touch with the meaningful currents of modern American verse will read and relish this volume...
...touch football game planned for yesterday afternoon between the CRIMSON team and the Dartmouth "Diddlers", championship journalistic rivals, had to be indefinitely postponed because of poor weather conditions. CRIMSON supporters, however, remembering the crushing victory won by their forces three years ago, had confidence in the never-realized result...
...study of art. He cited the story of a man who disapproved of his son's artistic leanings so sent him to Harvard Law School to prevent his ever returning to the brush and easel. The system was effective, Russell adds, as the youth could never recover his touch after his three years of "mental slavery" under Harvard law professors...