Word: jump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Broad jump...
...High jump...
...student's relationship to and understanding of education. In many cases it accomplishes this purpose by requiring Freshman "orientation courses"; in others by general distribution and introductory requirements. In spite of these artificial aids, often burdensome to teacher and student alike, the mortality among Freshmen unable to make the jump is unnecessarily large...
...think that he cheated and wrote on every other line. Meanwhile six proctors are rushing to his aid, the head proctor in his haste forgetting the table in front of him and taking a headlong live on to the floor, thereby hurting himself not a little. Overcome, I jump out of the west rose window and hastily repair to Wadsworth House for a little special instruction in mental hygiene...
...Earl of Birkenhead who walked in a bathrobe, worn toga-fashion, beside a pool into which no one cast ?100. That evening the so dapper gentlemen were merry. What a joker His Lordship was, to be sure! Mr. Shaw was not half so clever. Haw! Pretended he would jump into the pool, haw! Who but His Lordship would even have thought of it? Perishable! Positively rare and perishable! Haw! . . . "You will tip my waiter ?100," said a cold dry voice. "The law will not deprive you of the privilege of laughter. But-you may suffer other deprivations...