Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Vaulting, one hand. Take-off must be from both feet, with no preparatory jump...
...Amherst Student needs to learn that it is never safe to jump at conclusions. Because they were unable to find the answer to the riddle in our poem called "After Browning," they should not pronounce it "merely a collection of words indiscriminately thrown together." There is so good a point to the answer that we should be sorry to have the Student miss it merely from dulness, so try it again, and if you have to give it up let us know, and we'll send you the solution...
...events of the Gymnastic Tournament of the Athletic Association at the Gymnasium, March 4, are as follows: Swinging Indian clubs; putting up dumb-bells; parallel bars; horizontal bars; vaulting, two-handed and one-handed; standing high jump; light-weight and heavy-weight sparring; light-weight and heavy-weight wrestling...
...Jesus College the one-mile handicap was run in 4 min. 27 sec. The high jump was, like ours...
...Caius College, Cambridge, the high jump, 5 ft. 4 in., was the best thing. The hundred-yard race occupied 11 sec. At Christ's the hundred-yard was run in 10 3/5 sec., and the 150-yard handicap...