Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Page, the champion high jumper, has been offered $3000 a year by Buffalo Bill to give jumping exhibitions in his Wild West show...
...Teachers' Cooperative Association, 8 Hawley St., Boston, advertises for teachers for high and grammar schools, beginning next September...
...field. Linn played a fine fielding game and led his side at the bat. Gallivan played his usual good game, both in the field and at the bat. For Melrose, Grant played finely, as did Chase, who in the eighth caught a hot liner from Knowlton's bat, jumping high in the air. Harvard's coaching was poor, and lost her at least one run. The score...
...mile walk, Platt, '89, 7m. 38 2-5s.; 120-yards hurdle, Berger, '88, 17s.; half-mile run, Holton, 2m. 42 2-5s.; 220 yards dash, Robinson, '89, 23 2-5s.; two-mile bicycle race, Weare, '90, 6m. 46 1-5s.; running high jump, Shearman...
...boys in their kindergartens might be expected to do. During the game the spectators applauded and yelled with delight at every error Harvard made. As for the umpire, that individual so far lost his head when the score was tied in the eighth inning as to toss his hat high in the air, and did not recover his equanimity until one of the spectators, more impartially disposed than the rest, reminded him of the office he was supposed to fill. For his sake, we should also like to hint mildly that an umpire's business does not consist in coaching...