Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is a list of the events to be competed: 100 yds., 220 yds. and 440 yards. dashes, 1-2 mile run, mile walk, 120-yards hurdle race, 1-mile bicycle race, running high and broad jumps, throwing the baseball, throwing the hammer (12 lbs), putting the shot (16 lbs., pole vault...
...England Intercollegiate Athletic Association will omit the standing, high, and broad jumps and will substitute a 220-yard hurdle race with 2 feet, 6 inch-hurdles at their annual championship games, to be held at Worcester...
...dumb-bell exhibitions were introduced and in '82, the standing high jump. It was not until '83, that the last day of the games was set apart as Ladies' Day. In '84, the standing broad jump was introduced, and in '85, the University crews first gave an exhibition at the winter meeting...
...life come unsought who appear to be independent of this law; but the spontaneous success of their undisciplined genius are never permanent or satisfying. To possess the spirit of renunciation is the first essential of true success. When Christ spoke of fasting we may be sure he meant something broad: to fast in the true sense of renunciation does not mean merely the giving up of the evils and unnecessary pleasures of life, but even the good things. There must be a capability to sacrifice the good for the better. With renunciation must come aspiration, the longing after stronger influences...
...great hopes of winning the cup this year. The events which they expect to take and the men they are depending upon are the tug-of-war team; H. Mapes, '92, in one if not both hurdles; Banks, '89, in the quarter-mile; V. Mapes, '91, in the broad jump; Vosburgh, '90, and Hornbostel, '90, in the mile run; Strong, '89, in the half-mile run, and McGuire, '89, in the bicycle race...