Word: high
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale's weekly meeting on Tuesday evening, H. G. Shearman, '89, broke the Yale record in the running high jump with a jump of 5 feet 7 1-2 inches...
...Harvard, 23rd Regiment, Crescents of Tynn and Nassaus will enter teams. There will also be at the same time the following handicap events for gold and silver medals: Fifty yards dash, 220-yards run, 600-yards run, one-mile run, one-mile walk, two-mile bicycle race and running high jump, open to all amateurs. Entries close Feb. 12, with John T. Hetrick, secretary, Brooklyn...
Fifteen men are competitors for the prize in high jumping in Yale's weekly contests, and eleven men are candidates for the prize in putting the shot...
...equivalent of four regular courses. Candidates have often done irregular and desultory work and yet obtained the degree. If, on the other hand, a graduate enters the Law School, he must apply himself very closely for three years, and at the end of the courses pass his examination with high credit in order to obtain this same degree of A. M. It is safe to say that the courses of any one year at the Law School are fully equal in the amount of work required to the total amount demanded of the post-graduate. It may be said that...
...evolved this story assumes very extraordinary proportions. This article is noticeable in more ways than this. The perfect balance between its various parts, the delicacy with which the most exciting moments are rather touched than dwelt upon, and above all the excellence of the style and general treatment deserve high praise. The writer has his imagination, great as it is, under such control that it pictures only the dramatic, thus avoiding that retailing of what is simply extraordinary that is so common a fault with people who indulge their imagination very freely...