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...practice but recently installed, contemplates for another year at least of gently but firmly rejecting, not to say ejecting, all ladies, who may seek admittance to the Union's interesting series of lectures by notable figures of a busy world. Frankly, is that not shaking a mean fist instead of a hospitably extended hand at certain members of the Education School and Sister Radcliffe, not to speak of a few hundred professors' wives, who might possibly be interested in Current Events...
...father's fist came down on the table with a crash...
...good form. As a result of this, boxing in the University is at present confined to intramural contests. Nonetheless boxing has become a recognized sport in many of the chief eastern colleges; the recent match between Yale and M. I. T. was a model for fast and skilful fist-work. The present custom of two-minute periods with a decision at the end of three or four rounds, together with strict refereeing, has apparently eliminated the features which formerly made boxing objectionable. There is plenty of first-class material in the University at present...
...journey--reports that contradict each other at almost every turn. The days of melodrama for melodrama's sake have passed; so that when, in these latter days, the life of a man hangs on the howling of a dog, and a matter-of-fact balloon trip culminates in a fist fight in a North Canadian log hut, there is a natural desire to seek out the "whys and wherefores" that lie beneath the surface...
...charge of Mr. Conrad J. Surbeck, a graduate of the Springfield Y. M. C. A. College. He has had considerable experience as physical director of the playgrounds at New London and as a member of the War Work Department of the Y. M. C. A. He was fist stationed at the Mineola Avlation Field, then at St. Nazaire, and was finally appointed supervisor of the recreation activities of the soldiers at all the French ports of entry...