Word: high
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...managers of the University of Pennsylvania nine have succeeded in raising a loan of $4000 for the erection of a baseball cage. The cage is to be 220 feet long by 110 feet wide and about fifty feet high. The nine will begin practicing some time in February...
...shots. His first trial was with the twelve-pound shot which he hurled 50 feet, 6 inches, beating the best previous record by several feet. In putting the sixteen pound shot he far surpassed all college records ever made, by a throw of 44 feet, 5 in. In the high jumping, Webster, of the University of Pennsylvania, broke the world's record at the Mott Haven games by a jump of 5 ft. 11 1-2 inches. Previous to this time, Page of the same college held the record, which has not yet been equaled by a representative...
...flow of the circuitous current necessarily is much slower there than at the stern. To rectify this the blades of the bow oars will require larger bores. The outriggers were also defective in many respects, particularly those of 1, 5, 7, and 8, which were too high. It will probably be some time before everything is in perfect working order as chances for improvements cannot fail to be continually turning...
...water in the tank stood about twenty-eight inches high, and seemed to flow with perfect freedom around the central partitions. As a whole the tank promises to be entirely successful and it is earnestly hoped that the crews will derive all the advantages from it which all the men in college expect them...
...surpassed this number by six. The names of athletic men are conspicuously absent, while there are several society men honored, including four members of the promenade committee. Philosophicals have been assigned to only five men, an unusually small number. The remaining ninety-nine are about equally divided, fifteen receiving high orations, thirteen orations, thirteen dissertations, fifteen first deputies, sixteen second deputies, twelve first colloquies and fifteen second disputes...