Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first of the series of handicap contests of the Yale Athletic Association, Bayard, '90, put the shot 31 ft. 10 in., the best actual score, and Sherman won the high jump by clearing...
...Yale Athletic Association is holding a handicap contest in putting the shot and high jump. The first was last Tuesday evening and the next will be on Tuesday...
...Byro Page, champion high jumper of the world, at the University of Penn. games, jumped over two horses fifteen and a half hands high...
Fitzhugh considers himself able to fill any position but pitcher. He is from the Groton High School...
...Another example is the toleration among gentlemen of foul play in athletics, making an umpire needful to punish it. Howling at "errors" is extremely ungenerous and unsportsman-like. and is never seen in English universities. The chief object of college education is to implant in tellectual ambition and a high purpose, and this can be done only by a common sympathy for noble ends. Freshmen bring their home standards with them, and there is a decided difference between the present standards and those of the time when Harvard was a local institution After a man has been here some time...