{"id":38,"date":"2010-09-27T13:19:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T17:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watkinson.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=38"},"modified":"2015-08-12T14:24:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T14:24:02","slug":"this-week-trinity-100-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2010\/09\/27\/this-week-trinity-100-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"This week @ Trinity, 100 years ago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 27, 1910<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/09\/Tripod-masthead1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/09\/Tripod-masthead1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/09\/Tripod-masthead1.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/09\/Tripod-masthead1-300x82.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreshman Win Both Rushes\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The freshman were victorious in both of yesterday\u2019s rushes, winning the bulletin-board rush and the rope rush in rather easy style.\u00a0 The sophomores were simply outnumbered, and are to be congratulated on their spirit in putting up a hard fight in the face of almost certain defeat.\u201d\u00a0 [The rope rush was new that year, and was described thus]: \u201cAt a signal from the referee\u2019s whistle the two bands of shouting contestants rushed furiously at each other with an energy that became somewhat abated before the conflict was declared a victory for 1914.\u00a0 Each man was armed with a four-foot length of rope and as he encountered a man from the opposing class he strove to tie him in such a manner that there would be no chance of his farther entering the battle . . . in previous years \u201cBloody Monday\u201d rushes have been more or less farcical, but in no way could this be so termed . . . the college body, who witnessed the conflict as interested spectators from the sidelines, decided that there was no doubt as to the practicability of this new rush, and it will be a welcome substitute for the \u201cpush rushes\u201d of former years, which maimed several men and were otherwise brutal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Best Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>The College Tailor (44 Vernon Street) offers \u201cclothes pressed and cleaned for only $1.00 a month.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 27, 1910 \u201cFreshman Win Both Rushes\u201d The freshman were victorious in both of yesterday\u2019s rushes, winning the bulletin-board rush and the rope rush in rather easy style.\u00a0 The sophomores were simply outnumbered, and are to be congratulated on their spirit in putting up a hard fight in the face of almost certain defeat.\u201d\u00a0 [The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}