Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...being equal, should certainly be won by Harvard, and--while we concede Yale nothing, there are some which will probably not fall to us. A third class, however, remains unclaimed even on paper by Harvard or alien backers, and which are free to the taker as it were. The broad jump is one of this class; the sprints are others. From their pages on the entry books all the men who placed in these last year have graduated, and their shoes are yet to be filled. If we can train up to win these events, the season is ours...
...very interesting to compare Miss Crimmins's new play "She Knows Better Now" with Miss Lewis's new playlet "That Case of the Joneses." The former is a play of a small central idea expanded with fair success into a three-act play by means of Miss Irwin's broad and contagious humor. The latter is a play of a strikingly original idea cut down or rather left undeveloped till its effect is jeopardized. One is the play of moderately successful expansion; the other the play of unfortunate contraction...
...Handicap broad jump competition in Cage...
Professor Wyman's book contains a clear exposition, intelligible to the layman, of the legal aspects of the combination problem. He shows that the ancient principles of the common law have, after some initial uncertainty, proved sufficiently broad to render illegal the various devices resorted to for the purpose of suppressing competition...
...handicap events will be as follows: three standing, broad jumps, 18-inch limit, competitors must show 31-foot record; 600-yard dash, 30-yard limit; 1000-yard run, 50-yard limit; one mile run, 75-yard limit; putting 16-pound shot, 4-foot limit, competitors must show that they have put the shot at least 40 feet in competition; high jump, 3-inch limit, competitors must show that they have jumped at least 5 feet, 3 inches in competition...