Word: barring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sweeney, champion high jumper of the world, cleared the bar...
...last meet of the Yale Gymnastic Association was held last Wednesday evening and was a great success. The college record for the standing high jump was broken by nearly three inches by L. P. Sheldon '96, who cleared the bar at five feet. At the close of the contest G. L. Buist, Jr., '96, was announced the College Gymnast, having made a total of twenty-four points in eight contests. Handsome silver cups were awarded to the winners of the first and second places in the contests...
...Boston yesterday. Judge Lincoln was born in Cambridge October 4, 1819. His early education was obtained in the public schools, and he entered Dartmouth in 1838, graduating with the class of 1842. He entered the Harvard Law School and graduated in 1844. In 1845 he was admitted to the bar. He was for some time district attorney for the southern district of Bristol county and for thirty-one years he was on the bench of the Superior Court...
...About one hundred members were present. President Gleason acted as toastmaster and the following men spoke: Rev. A. M. Lord, Harvard '83, on "A Practical Application of the Fraternity Spirit;" Mr. Henry A. Thomas, the Governor's private secretary, on "Our Country;" A. B. Haven, Rutgers '82, on "The Bar;" President B. L. Whitman, of Colby, spoke on the necessity of developing the spiritual side of human nature. Other speakers were Rev. S. E. Lane, Union '41, A. L. Blair, Hamilton '72, and E. M. Bassett, Amherst...
...Putnam stayed seven years in all at the Athenaeum and the Public Library and then resigned and returned to the east. For the last three years he has been a member of the Suffolk bar, in active practice in Boston. In this time he has made one trip abroad to buy books on architecture and the fine arts for Minneapolis...