Word: two-handed
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...Wendell desires particular notice to be given that the entries for the events of next Saturday, March 18th, will close Thursday evening, March 16th. The events for which entries are to be made are fencing, light and feather-weight sparring, standing high-jump, two-hand vault, club-swinging (legitimate), tug-of-war, '82 vs. '83, teams of four men. Entries can be made with Mr. Wendell, or with Mr. Woodward at 14 Holworthy...
...events for next Saturday, March 18, ladies' day, are fencing, light and feather-weight sparring, standing high jump, two-hand vault, club swinging (legitimate), tug-of-war, '82 vs. '83, teams of four men, and the final bout in middle-weight sparring, postponed from last meeting...
Morison, '83, is practising for the two-hand vault...
...appeared to have the best of it, though the judges decided in favor of Heilbron; upon which a number of boorish Freshmen proceeded to display their ill breeding by hissing the judges' decision, an insult we have never before seen at Harvard, and hope never to see repeated. The two-hand vault followed, and brought out seven men; the bar was started at 5 feet 2 in. T. C. Batchelder, '83, and A. C. Denniston, '83, were the first to withdraw, at 6 ft. 3 in; C. M. Field, '84, and H. F. Mandell, '84, fell...
...such as is requisite for carrying out fully the "Fence Rules" adopted could not be procured until a very late hour; and the vaulters justly refused to enter if such a bar was substituted without giving them time to practise with it. In this same event - the two-hand vault - a dispute arose from the fact that one of the contestants had not practised sufficiently under the new rules to know what constituted...