Word: highly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present generation has tremendous resources for good and evil, in its wealth and prosperity and in its advancement in knowledge. This generation needs to learn self-control, sense of law and order, and the value of a high ideal. Race prejudice must be wiped out, and the great field of psychological research must be directed. These are the calls of the present need for strong men in positions of responsibility...
...admission will be charged, as most of the events will be run off on the board track. The preliminary trials in the three field events, the high jump, 12-pound shot-put, and 16-pound shot-put, will take place in the Gymnasium tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. The first track event, the trial heats of the 40-yard dash, will start promptly at 3 o'clock...
...only too lazy to sweep up the crumbs himself? G. K. Munroe's "Castles" has undeniable music, but most of the sense is beyond me. H. T. Pulsifer's sonnet on Lincoln is, like much of the verse on the theme published during the last month, a trifle too high-pitched to suggest absolute sincerity; and to be insincere about Lincoln is a crime. The American people have doubtless been much moved in recalling their great hero, but it is only the poets who have been blinded by "a veil of sudden falling tears...
...most important factor in the management of the department store is the personal element, which is essential to success. Care, good breeding, intelligence, and fidelity are indispensable, and there is a field for originality and intellectual growth. Though the retail business has reached a high level, there will always be a vast opportunity for men with first-class executive and financial ability to broaden and improve the business profession...
Preliminaries will be run off on March 5, in order that only the finals and more interesting trial heats will come the following day. Besides interdormitory relay races, there will be the following events: 40-yard dash, handicap 15-foot limit; 260-yard run, novice, scratch; 45-yard high hurdles, handicap 18-foot limit; 45-yard low hurdles, handicap 15-foot limit; 2-mile cross-country run, handicap 50-seconds limit; 16-pound shot-put, handicap 6-foot limit; 12-pound shot-put, novice, scratch; high jump, handicap 6-inch limit. Special novice races have been arranged in order that...