Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball men playing lacrosse this season, The game is one particularly adapted to foot-ball men, having much the same tactics, and only requiring a little skill in handling the crosse to transform them into adepts at the sport. It also keeps them in good trim and practice for their fall work of another year. For this reason several football captains have tried, during the last few years, to get some of their men into the lacrosse ranks in the spring. Unfortunately for both sides their efforts have not been as successful as they deserved to be. But aside...
...were entered. They vaulted in the following order: S. H. Fessenden, Jr., '86, T. C. Carey, '86, C. M. Walsh, '84, and H. F. Mandell, '84. The bar was started at 5 feet 6 inches. Carey was the first to receive applause on account of his peculiarly graceful trim and the bar was raised several times before anyone dropped out. Bachelder was the first to fail. Howard followed, then Carey, Mandell and Fessenden. This left the two tallest men, Atkinson and Walsh, to compete for the first and second prizes. Walsh failed at last and Atkinson continued to vault...
Girton College is very pleasantly situated near the university town of Cambridge, England. The buildings occupy two sides of a quadrangle, tastefully laid out into grass-plots, flowerbeds and trim walks. These buildings contain fifty-five suites of rooms for students; suites for the mistress and three resident lecturers; eight lecture rooms, a dining hall, a small chapel, and an isolated hospital suite. There is also in another building, which stands by itself, a laboratory and a gymnasium. The college was founded about fifteen years ago, in a private house, with six students in the catalogue...
...trees that abound in all the gardens and that line the banks of the Isis are in their first and freshest foliage. The ivy and the roses are climbing walls of edifices and gardens and are now in full leaf and flower. The lawns and green-swards are as trim as art and labor can keep them, and as soft to the foot-step as velvet, and as the habit of a thousand years could make them. Today the examinations are all over, and the festivities of commemoration have begun. The men have for the most part doffed...
...Harvard freshmen have definitely declined the challenge of the Yale freshmen to play off the tie in foot-ball. The team has now been out of training for a week and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to get into playing trim again in so short a time as is now left. Mr. Walter Oakes, the manager of the Harvard eleven, says in his letter declining the challenge, that "it is impossible to play another game, although we would like very much to play off the tie. Our semi-annuals are at hand and the men think that...