Word: high
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...noteworthy success, reflecting great credit upon the Academy. There were in all seventy-two entries. The first event, the fence vault, was won by Shead, '89, with a vault of 6 feet, 7 3-4 inches, breaking the Exeter record by 5 inches. Heywood, '89. won the running high jump, with a record of 5 feet, 4 1-4 inches. Heffelfinger and Shead wsre tied for second place. The club-swinging, which followed next, was fairly contested. For the horizontal bar there were five entries, and this proved one of the most interesting, most skillfully executed events...
...senior class won eight first and five second prizes, thus carrying off the day. The result of the meeting as a whole show commendable energy and remarkably high standard in in-door athletics at Exeter. The Exonian issued an extra containing a full report of the meeting...
...winter meeting of the Cornell A. A. took place last Monday. Records were broken in rope-climbing and in the running high jump...
...whole will bear comparison with that of any other body of students, with that of any other body of students, while in intellectual matters the ferment of thought and study is far more fruitful and vigorous than elsewhere in America. Furthermore the ratio of higher thinkers to high livers is continually rising, as the library and office statistics show. The great populace at the University is apt to slur over moral laxity in a man provided he is affable and kindly, i.e., a 'good fellow.' Yet it is undeniable that the feeling of contempt, for vice and extravagance, gathers strength...
...high standard of physical excellence should be arrived at, as showing that the general idea of the low physical standard of the growing generation, is false, at least, as applied to Harvard, which has lately been cited as productive of broken down constitutions, rather than of high physical excellence. Therefore let all who have any interest, which should mean the whole college, lend their aid, not only those who have had no previous examinations, but for the reasons stated in the article already referred to, those who have already been examined...