Word: high
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...have decided to hold special contests in the gymnasium during the winter, in three events, putting the shot, running high jump and pole vault. These contests will be held Saturday afternoons after the Christmas recess, and prizes will be given for the best average in each event. In the pole vault, Mr. R. G. Leavitt will be handicapped one foot, the shot and high jump will be scratch events. Since the object of these contests is to raise the standard of our work in the events, high enough to win in the Mott Haven games, all men who have even...
...number of men, there seems to be another and stronger reason why something should be done in this way. There are several events in the Mott Haven games which we have small hope of winning this year. With the departure of Clark and Rogers, our hopes in winning the high jump have vanished, to all appearances...
...seems to me that it would be an excellent plan if a series of contests were arranged for Saturday afternoons in running-high and standing jump, and in pole vaulting, cups to be awarded the winners. This would, perhaps, bring out some new men and would develop the existing material for the team which goes into training after Xmas. The plan has been tried at Yale with considerable success, and would at any rate raise the standard of our own athletics...
...several convincing arguments in favor of athletics, which he says "not only tend to discourage looseness of living and to found a strong constitution, but, if taken rightly, they can hardly fail to develop in the athlete to a marked degree the qualities of courage, perseverance, loyalty, and a high sense of honor." This is a sentiment which must commend itself to all earnest, thinking men. It is undoubtedly the true way to look at athletics; and to reach this result, Mr. Wendell contends, the athlete must begin with a thorough respect for and appreciation of his sport...
...most important thing is not what we study, but how. Greek can be studied here with admirable facilities; so can all the languages and all the sciences, and the best of all is that good as are the helps and high as are the standards, nobody has such a conceited estimate of them as not earnestly to strive to make them better. Knowledge is here thoroughly humble over its own ignorance; it knows enough to know its own limitations. The college life is so vigorous as to spend nearly a million dollars a year, and still feel wretchedly pinched...