Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prizes in the running high jump were taken by Codman and Lothrop. They jumped 4 feet 10 1-2 inches, and 4 feet 10 inches respectively...
...good as any man in the rush line. Butler is slow in getting through. He runs hard and follows the ball well; but is apt to lose his head a little. Wood backs up well, and blocks and gets through fairly well, but he fumbles badly and tackles very high. Brooks understands the position of centre-rush, and runs his team well. His chief fault is that he relies too much on his strength, tackling high. Woodman is slow in getting through, and fails to follow the ball as a rule. He does not block well, but runs hard when...
...tackle in first-class shape. Bancroft is slow in getting through, and very apt to overrun his man when going down the field. He watches his end well, but plays too little as a part of the team, not following the ball enough. He tackles hard, but painfully high...
...long they go straggling down the field at full speed, with the usual result that the other half-back dodges two or three of them and gets pretty well up the field again before he is stopped. Then everybody in the rush line, almost without exception, tackles too high, though there has been some improvement in this of late. The rush line drop on the ball better than they did, and have about got over their favorite trick of three weeks ago, of dropping with great force and style, only to find that the ball was no longer there...
...with pleasure that we hear of the appointment of Mr. Danforth, our Bursar, to the office of Inspector of Buildings. This is indeed a new departure, and ranks high among the recent changes in the college system. Mr. Danforth will undoubtedly take up this new labor with the same earnestness and vigilance which has always characterized his work in the assignment of students rooms, and we shall see a marked change in the appearance of our dormitories. Now that the appointment is made, we wonder why it was not thought of before, for the two duties suit each other admirably...