Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Broad jump...
When a boy leaves the kindergarten and passes through the primary and grammar schools, his course of study is much narrowed. In the college course it is again broadened, and the pupil usually becomes really interested in his studies. Now this broad course may be brought down from the college to the intermediate school, or we might say, it may be brought up from the kindergarten. This experiment has been systematically tried in Brookline and works well...
...yards dashes - Richards, Pond, Gillette, Burnet and Wade; 440 yards dash - Pond, Chubb, Jordan and Gerard; half-mile run - Woodhull and Lapham; mile run - Morgan, Wadhams, Brainard and Scoville; two mile bicycle race - Alling, Hill, Peck, Heidrick and Parmelee; high jump - Sheldon, Cady, Thompson and Rowe; broad jump - Sheldon and Mitchell; pole vault - Kershow, Alling and Brett; 16 pound shot - Captain Hickok, Brown, Lyman and Coit; 16 pound hammer - Captain Hickok, Chadwick and Cross; mile walk - Thrall. Richards kept out of football last fall and has been resting all winter; it is hoped that he can get back...
...served on the way to New York. At New York the train will be run aboard a steamer and will be taken by it around the city to the connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad. The quarters of the team at Philadelphia will be at the Hotel Metropole on Broad street...
...Running broad jump...