Boxing Day was brighter, and there were hopes of a period of better weather.

When off duty the boys amuse themselves in a hundred waysgoing to town, the theaters, and movies; chasing the girls (especially that to judge by their talk); play; boxing; games; and I am sorry to add, many of them gamble and drink.

Other first-year lads procured sticks, boxing gloves, and other things, and looked around for somebody to lead them.

" What between the boxing-gloves and the boat, there could be no question but what Frank Harley had landed at the right place to get strong in.

There was plenty of fishing, bathing, riding, boating, boxing: if they had worked day and night, they could not have used it all up.

Mr. Johnson was,' she continues, 'very conversant in the art of boxing.'

if shaving, or boxing, or scouring, Or 'nointing, or scraping, or purging, or blood-letting, Or rubbing, or paring, or chafing, or fretting, Or ought else will rid it, he shall want no ridding.

" Having thus delivered herself she retreated towards the kitchen and I ascended the stairs, at the head of which I found Miss Bellingham awaiting me with her right hand encased in what looked like a white boxing-glove.

The operation of pumping Mr. Jellicoe was rather like the sport of boxing with a porcupine, being chiefly remarkable as a demonstration of the power of passive resistance.

He kissed me and said I was a dear little cousin, and had I been boxing any one's ears lately.

Then there's a boxing competition at the St. John's Arms, and a subscription dance in the Nelson Rooms, and a lecture on Dante, with illustrations from contemporary art, for working men and women, at the Institute.

" Kelley had originally hung out a sign and advertised to instruct young gentlemen in boxing, but the faculty had made it rather warm for him, and it was generally supposed that he had been forced to leave New Haven.

In a short time Bruce called that he was ready, and the professor leisurely strolled into the back room, where there was a punching bag, a striking machine, all kinds of boxing gloves, and other paraphernalia such as a man in Kelley's business might need.

But their enlightened horror could not exceed the disgust shown by a young South American, who witnessed a casual boxing-match between two boys in Hyde Park, surrounded and encouraged, as he expressed himself, by well-dressed barbarians.

The Van Court scientific boxing course.

The Van Court scientific boxing course.

Emily Hahn Boxer (A); 30Dec70; R497486. BOXING.

The Heavyweight championship: an informal history of heavyweight boxing from 1719 to the present day.

The Saga of sock: a complete story of boxing.

Emily Hahn Boxer (A); 30Dec70; R497486. BOXING.

Banana boxing manual.

The ancient bandbox, so detested by our sires and sons, has given place to this new machine which our daughters take with them wheresoever they go, boxing and unboxing and readjusting for each journey.

A brief display of thoroughly unscientific boxing ensued, and then Macgregor got home between the eyes.

There is also a Brigade boxing-tournament.

I produce a pair of gloves ordinarily used at London boxing matches.