Word: jump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state of mind brought about by this situation is not one calculated to make the undergraduate regard the requirements before him as "a tool to use instead of a hurdle to jump". The Junior who finds himself on probation because of failure to show a reading knowledge of one language or an elementary knowledge of the other, in spite of three or more attempts to pass the requirement, feels himself unjustly treated. Worse than that, he loses entirely any benefit from the original object of the Requirements,--to force on every undergraduate a working ability to read text-books...
Field events, October 23: High jump, broad jump, pole vault, javelin throw, and discus throw...
...school. Among these are R. G. Allen, last year's Andover captain, J. N. Walters, A. S. Perkins, and K. N. Rogers, all of Exeter, and Willard Tibbets of Worcester Academy. S. B. Jones and E. W. Martin also of Exeter should be point-winners in the high-jump and pole-vault respectively...
...distressing to those used to the orderly conduct of the hospital ward to have the patient, quietly opiated and under the surveillance of the most illustrious physicians, suddenly jump up, ram his medicine down the doctor's throat and escape, in spite of the organized efforts of the strong-arm squad to detain...
...intents and purposes the prolonged baseball series is developing into a long-distance hop scotch contest in which both the University and Yale teams have steadily been one jump behind the Weatherman. When Tuesday's game was called off at New Haven, conditions were fair in Cambridge; and when both teams were at Cambridge yesterday there was an accommodating let-up in the down-pour at New Haven. Apparently the signals have been mixed somewhere. Instead of having any of the players "sent to the showers", the authorities are sending the showers after the players. Aside from the fact that...