Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...school is now in a position of great strength. It has a well-high perfect building, a well-chosen library, which is steadily increased and improved, hard working and competent teachers in the prime of their powers, an enthusiastic body of students, and a large number of loyal alumni scattered all over the country in positions of influence and trust. What the school needs is more teaching and more scholarships...
...second trial of the high jumping contest held in the gymnasium at Yale last Saturday was won by Sherwood, '90, with a jump of 5 3-4 feet by reason of his handicap over Shearman, '89, who jumped 5ft. 2 3-4 inches...
...Dickens' young lady on board the vessel in the case of the fifth lover who wouldn't jump overboard to save her, because he was the most practical. In taking a stand against liquor there were too heresies to be met. The personal heresy, where people of high standing used liquor moderately and had it on their sideboards for all; and the heresy in regard to license. The only way in which the terrible power of the liquor organizations in our country could be fought was in having the young men take a decided stand against it from the start...
...text of Article 19 of the Constitution of the Canton de Vaud in Switzerland. This law is of especial interest to the students in Political Economy 7, since it explains the "progressive" property tax in Switzerland. The magazine as a whole, is a valuable on and keeps up the high reputation scored by its predecessor...
...have commenced regular work in training for them. The candidates for the Mott Haven Team number about thirty men, and have begun their regular work, consisting principally of long walks and runs. A new plan has been adopted by which, it is hoped, the college record for the running high jump may be considerably raised. Handicap trials are to be held in the Gymnasium for seven or eight successive weeks, at which each man is to be handicapped according to the record he made the previous week. At the end the prize will be awarded...