Word: high
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...open to amateurs, and three prizes will be awarded in each event. The following events will be contested: 75-yards dash, 220-yards dash, 440-yards dash, half-mile run, mile run, mile walk, two-mile bicycle race, 200-yards hurdle race, pole vault, standing broad jump, running high jump, putting the 24-lb. shot and throwing the 56-lb. weight. The entrance fee will be one dollar in each event...
...National Swedish Concert Company gave a concert here in the lecture course last Tuesday evening, one of the finest concerts that has ever been given in Hanover. Their singing was of a very high order, and in their picturesque costumes they made a most attractive sight...
...such as to warrant the expectation of a successful western trip. Both Clubs showed the result of their almost continual practice during the fall in preparation for their projected trip of next week. In short, we congratulate the management on the presentation of a concert fully up to the high standard set in former years...
...then spoke for the negative. There are three reasons why women should not vote, namely: Because of their religious fanaticism, their ignorance, their inability to perform the duties of citizens. Woman is controlled in her actions by prejudices, passions, and sympathy, and therefore cannot be trusted to affairs of high import...
...college yard was the piece of ground lying between Harvard and Massachusetts Hall and the original Stoughton Halls, which stood facing the main gate and made the eastern side of a quadrangle. The old Stoughton Hall was more picturesque than the other dormitories: it was three stories high, had dormer windows, and made some pretensions toward architectural beauty. In this building and in Massachusetts-at that time a dormitory-forty to fifty students had their rooms...