Word: heights
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Adams, stroke, comes from Boston, and prepared for Harvard at Groton, where he rowed on the school crew. He is 19 years of age, weighs 152 pounds, and is 5 ft. 7 in. in height...
...said that the most noticeable feature of the geography of New England was the level upland surface, which forms all the rural part of the country. This upland slopes gradually down from a height of 1400 feet in New Hampshire to the coast line, where it sinks into the sea. Although generally level, this long stretch of land is broken by mountains, sometimes isolated and sometimes in groups, and also by valleys running toward the sea. When travelling through the valleys one does not realize how level the country really is, but from a high point of view the comparatively...
...Lack of free registry was not responsible for the decline in American shipping.-(a) Under present laws our merchant marine reached its height.-(b) Decline due to-(1) Destruction of commerce by English-built cruisers: Bates, Chap. 9.-(2) Commercial depression following war.-(3) Mechanical changes-(x) Wood to iron.-(y) Sail to steam...
...Paine, H. A. A., second, and K. K. Kubli, H. A. A., third; distance 36 ft. 4 1/2 in. The running high jump was won by C. J. Paine, H. A. A., P. C. Stingel, B. A. A., second, and W. E. Putnam, H. A. A., third; height 5 ft. 11 in. Three standing jumps were won by E. A. Boeseke, M. I. T., K. K. Kubli, H. A. A., second, and B. Doherty, S. B. A. C., third; distance 32 ft. 8 1/8 in. The potato race was run by J. J. Crowley...
Pole vault - Won by W. W. Hoyt '98 (scratch), height 10 1t. 4 1/2 in.; second, N. P. Hallowell...