Word: high
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...high-jump, Richards, Cady and MacLaren will be the mainstays, and the same three, with Hickman, who did 21 feet 11 inches in the Penn, meet last year, are the broad-jumpers. Foss, Hickman and Cheney are the best pole-vaulters, while Richards, Hageman, McCormick, Moore and Howell will be the mainstays in the weights...
Professor Edwin J. Clapp, head of the Department of Economics at New York University, urges the establishment by the Government of a Continental Force, the ranks of which shall be composed of students in colleges, high schools, and preparatory schools...
Depending chiefly upon college men not out of college more than three years and high school students not continuing their education, 200,000 men could be recruited annually, is the contention of Professor Clapp. With these men subject to call for four years, the country in five years would have 1,000,000 regular soldiers with officers...
...There is a class of men who could without loss and indeed with profit give up two months of three successive years to this training. These men are students in high schools, preparatory schools and colleges. Most of them are idle during an annual three months vacation. If six scattered months made a soldier these students could be made into a Continental force...
...believe that a great many of these same men can be had for an entire year of training, namely, the year after graduation from college, or if education is not carried beyond the high school, the year after graduating from high school...