Word: heights
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Spring board leaping - Won by W. E. Putnam '96, height, 8 ft. 6 in. (Harvard record). Three entries...
...made before this time. The demands on the department have so greatly increased that it is necessary to systematize the work in order that students may be looked after promptly. It is well for students to bear in mind that in the evening a fever is at its greatest height, and any one having fever as shown by chills or "fever" in the morning, should report immediately for he is liable to be worse in the afternoon rather than better. This is necessary as reports later than 11 a.m. may not be received till the following morning. An hour...
...taken upon themselves the title of "Harvard University Ice Polo Team." Is not this a bold and unwarranted assumption? That five men should band together in what is essentially nothing more than a scrub organization and then call this a University team and represent Harvard as such, is the height of presumption. There is, as things stand, nothing to prevent their next step - that of placing an "H" upon their sweaters - a proceeding which I feel sure would arouse a protest from the whole college...
...branches of athletics should be brought forth. That the leaders in Princeton's athletic councils acknowledge that this is true, is plainly shown by their claim that a large number of the men of the larger institutions should be debarred from athletics, but it would be the height of folly for our Athletic Association to yield to their absurd and preposterous demand...
...classes there mustering only about half their enrolled number. The dormitories of the academic department contain many cases of the distemper, but not to so great an extent as expected. The faculty are granting sick excuses almost without limit. It is thought that the epidemic is at its height in the university and that most of the sick students will resume recitations in two or three days...