Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Amherst had its annual winter meeting last Friday. In the pole-vaulting and running high jump the previous Amherst records were broken. The college banner was awarded to the class...
...Advocate which is issued to-day is one of the best of the year. The editorials are smoothly written, although they lack some of the vigor usually found in the editorials of the paper. The first article is "A Story of the South," a piece of composition of a high order. The climax of the story is very thrilling and the incidental dissertation of Mexican scenes are realistic. "The Swiss Yankee" is the title of an admirable bit of descriptive writing. The Swiss landscape in all its peacefulness and silent grandeur seems lying stretched out before the reader, while...
...appearance in the Advocate of such a nondescript piece of writing as the lines entitled "A Vapid Vaporing." We have thought that none but articles which had some claim to literary merit were published in this paper, but here we find something that is entirely out of place. The high tone of the other articles is lowered by the presence of these verses, which, if they were in their proper place, might call for our approval. Perhaps the best thing in the present number is the stanza, "A Memory: to Nightfall." It is a most delicate and pure composition...
...Running High Jump-G. L. Barney, '90; R. S. Bell, '91; J. B. Alexander, '90; H. H. Hunnewell...
...Running High Kick-R. B. Hale, '91; S. L. Thayer, '88; E. E. Buckingham, L. S.; G. Rublee...