Word: hills
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Paine raised Fearing's record in the high jump of 6 ft. 1/2 in. by one-eighth of an inch. He won first place in the event at 5 ft. 9 3/8 in., and cleared the bar in his exhibition jump without great difficulty and at the first trial. Hill's time of 5m. 12 3/5s. in the bicycle race is several seconds better than the former record. Not less remarkable was Hollister's half mile in 1m. 58 1/5s. Hollister won with the greatest possible ease and did not seem to be at all done up at the finish...
Geological Conference. Papers: Shore Phenomena between Cohasset and Plymouth, Mass., Mr. H. I. Richmond; Review of Hill's "Notes on the Geology of the Island of Cuba," Mr. L. S. Griswold; Review of Powell's National Geographic Monograph on "Physiographic Forms," Professor W. M. Davis. Geological Laboratory...
...Hill began by tracing briefly the history of the public schools in the state. In 1647, he said, the colony of Massachusetts Bay decreed that towns of 100 families should maintain a grammar school. This early grammar school was not what we today would understand by a grammar school. It was a preparatory school for college, in which greater attention was given to the study of Latin and Greek grammar than that of English. The Plymouth Colony in the same year decreed that every town which contained fifty families must support a public school...
...Hill then dwelt for a time upon the more technical of the two high schools, and he ended by showing the apparent injustice of the system. For while the people of the large towns may obtain the best school education for their children, the parents in the smaller towns must be content with a secondary education. He stated that there were two feasible remedies for this objection: first, every parent or legal guardian should have a right to claim a first grade high school for their children; second, let there be but one statutory high school, with certain fixed standards...
...Yale track athletic team will reach Boston this afternoon and take up their headquarters at the Vendome while they are here. Peck and Hill, who are entered for the two-mile bicycle race, arrived at the Vendome yesterday. They came out to Cambridge during the day and tried the track with their wheels, in order to accustom themselves to the turns...