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...minutes. When the contestants again entered the ring Sterne lifted Paine off the ground and tried to land him on his back. Paine turned quickly and came down back up. While Sterne was trying to turn him he seized one of his hands, and pulled Sterne over on his head and thence on to his back. Paine's wrestling was remarkably good...
...minutes. Amory only came down once, and that time he got a couple more inches; '89 mean while was fighting for all it was worth; Perry was not only sandy, he was foxy as well, and tried to win back the precious inches by head and legs. It was no use; '90 had three and a half inches when time was called. The joy of the freshmen knew no bounds. They rushed in and carried their team off with uproarious joy. Beware, '90, you may strike a snag...
...president of Harvard College gets $4000 per annum. So does the head cook at the Parker House, Boston. This is a sad commentary on "Modern Athens...
...first enveloped in a large white gaberdine. Next his throat was protected by bands of thick cloth, wound tightly round and round until it seemed well-nigh impossible for him to move his head. The front of his body was then covered with what looked very like a dropsical cricket pad on a large scale, extending from the chest to the knees. The sword arm, from the wrist to the shoulder, was then padded and bandaged to three times its natural size, and the hand guarded by a thick leathern gauntlet. Lastly, a pair of spectacles, rimmed with metal, protected...
...plan to remedy these effects in our system of economy in athletics has been under discussion, namely, to provide one head for all departments of athletics, one man hired to supervise them all - to carry on one consistent policy, to reduce running expenses, and later, by longer experience than an undergraduate can have - find faults and remedies hitherto unsuspected. The "but" to this, of course, is, first, that subscriptions would fall off - that a man would give ten dollars each to four branches of athletics, where he would refuse forty dollars to the four combined - a doubtful point - and, secondly...