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...Saturday's meeting close to H. L. Clark, 28 Grays, at 10 P. M., this evening. All (so far as is known) of the men who intend to enter for the parallel bars have requested that the event be changed to the third meeting. If this is done, the rope climbing will be put in the second meeting. If no protest is received today by the secretary, the change will be made...
...innumerable lazy fishermen and the naked legs of bathers in the floating baths. It floats in the cold moonlight and bobs aimlessly against the bottoms of the anchored boats, thump, thump, thump, gently and aimlessly. It drifts against a pier, and the purpled fingers are actually washed against a rope which is dangling into the water; but they cannot grasp It-indeed, it is doubtful if they wish to; what can be pleasanter than this aimless, dreamy floating? It is baptised with the unspeakable filth of a dozen sewers which discharge into the river, its limbs are sadly swollen...
THIRD WINTER MEETING, SATURDAY, MARCH 28TH. LADIES' DAY.Running high jump, flying rings, rope climbing, pole vault, horizontal bar, running high kick, tumbhling, final...
...bedclothes to shift his plates. The landlady whose suspicion had been roused by the strange actions and apparatus of the photographer, happened to come into the room during this operation, and seeing two legs sticking out of the bed where the head ought to be. seized a piece of rope and calling for help, tied the unlucky man securely to the bed by winding the rope around both. Ever after this there has been a doubt in the landlady's mind about the sanity of my friend, and in his, about the strength of her mind. But it is quite...
...know once for all that this progressive university cannot carry out to the end all plans for your welfare, nor exercise a parential care over you, thus inculcating the first principles of independence of action. The lesson to be learned in this case is, that if you buy a rope about 150 feet long, and fasten it to the staple, you might escape, provided the rope did not burn before you reached the ground." What we wish to impress on everybody is, that if he neglects to obtain a rope after the generous advance of a staple, his blood...