Word: cats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...admiration to their countrymen, still the fact that they confine their powers almost entirely to college games and seldom enter open amateur competitions, detracts considerably from their importance as representatives of athletics in this country. * * * What a splendid list of high jumpers we have now. Page, little, wiry, cat-like Page, hit the record such a crack this year as to send it up to 6.00 1-4. * * * Then Reinhart stands at 5.10 1-4; Atkinson, 5.9 3-4; Richards, 5-9 1-4; Whitehorn, 5.8 1-4, etc. If Reinhart really settled down to business and stopped smoking...
Every corps has a house of its own where the students meet evenings and hold their "kneipen." These consist of beer drinking, smoking, and singing; but the singing may better be called howling, and for those living opposite, the midnight hours are made more hideous than by cat-concerts. The greater part of the night is spent in this way, they getting to bed in the neighborhood of three of four o'clock in the morning. This is, of course, not a regular occurence, but happens about twice a week...
...know. He is up with the lark; he is up with the bat; in fact he is never down. But speaking of being down, I remember a grind who was down once. He was making a call. His amorous eye glared from behind its glassy shield like a cat's eye in the dark. The conversation had flagged. Suddenly he brightened up. "Miss S - S - can you tell me the number of right angles in a triangle?" A pause. "Why it depends on the size of the triangle." That idea had never struck him before, and he succumbed. To this...
...whole a very funny effect. Among the other examples of the early writers were several old English pieces, of the first half of the 17th century, especially a "Hunting Jigg," by Dr. John Bull, a celebrated player on the "Virginal," an instrument much like the clarichord; likewise the Cat's Fugue by Scarlotti, and selections from the English Suite by Bach. Much interest attaches to these early attempts as being the forerunners of our present piano music...
...love for political excitement sometimes led him into strange situations. On one occasion, when the streets of Cambridge were filled with crowds of votes, excited over a closely contested election, he was hit full in the face by a dead cat. The aggressor came forward and very civilly asked pardon, offering the explanation that the compliment had been intended for a Mr. Adeane. Macaulay good-naturedly accepted the apology, saying, "I only wish you had meant it for me, and hit Mr. Adeane...