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...exhibition of family cobs, Ltn 7 of draft-horses, and Eng 5 of ladies' saddle-horses. Phycs 2 seems to have been a trial of strength with lifting-machines, and Eng 6, a test of the capacity of the lungs. Phil 7 was hazardous tight rope walking, Phil 2 a performance upon the flying trapeze, and Phil 3 apparently was a balloon ascension. (This last statement, I know, supposes that balloons were invented at an earlier date than is commonly given; but probably the ascensions so plainly described here were only to a small height and in a captive balloon...
...mark on the rope to be over the centre crease when the word "Heave!" is given, and the team hauling that mark over the crease on its own side to be the winners...
...rope to be one and one-half inches in diameter...
...between Holden Chapel and Hollis Hall, and will be open at 5. After the exercises at the Tree, and during the remainder of the evening, a ticket will be required of every gentleman, or of gentlemen accompanied by ladies, entering the portion of the Yard enclosed by the rope...
...Nunn and Alger played well for the Beacons in the field; while Moore carried off the honors at the bat. The element of the "unwashed" predominated so largely among the audience, and made itself so decidedly objectionable, that the officers of the Base-Ball Club have decided to rope the field in and have police-men in attendance at the game to-morrow. Below is the score...