Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...aching head. Arrayed in dress coat and white gloves, the candidate, followed by several of his friends, appears before the august assembly of professors. After an interchange of civilities in Latin and profound reverential bows, the student is invited to read his thesis. Suddenly one of his friends will jump up and express his doubts as to the truth of a certain assertion. A dispute then ensues between the two, in which by some mysterious dispensation of Providence, the candidate always comes out ahead. To one uninitiated into the great secret, the sudden interruption is startling, but when we learn...
...recent reunion of the Yale alumni in Springfield, Mass. The great difficulty about reaching a just conclusion is the lack of sufficient trustworthy data. Startling stories are told as to the extravagant sums which are spent by rich youths at New Haven or Cambridge, and listeners at once jump to the conclusion that only millionaires can foot the bills of a student at Harvard or Yale. Even the average expenditure at sometimes figured out is deceptive and misleading, since heavy outlays by only a few will outweigh the light purses of the many. Thus the average expenses of five students...
...Technology winter sports on Saturday, the winners were as follows: fence vault, Dearborn, '88, 6 ft. 8 in.; shot, Fletcher, '87, 34 ft.; high kick, Sturges, '87, 8 ft. 6 in.; running high jump, Devens, '88, 5 ft. 2 3-4 in.; standing high jump, Young, '86, 4 ft. 8 in. The tug-of-war was won by '87 over...
...athletic club of the Institute of Technology holds its first in-door meeting of the year on Saturday, Dec. 19. The following events will be contested: Fence vault, putting shot (16 pounds), running high kick, running high jump, standing high jump, pole vault and parallel bars. Tugs of war will be contested by the different classes; '86 has held the class championship in this since its sophomore year, and the prospects are that it will hold it throughout, although '87 expects...
RUNNING BROAD JUMP.The following were the contestants in the running broad jump: J. D. Bradley, '86, scratch; R. D. Smith, '86, 4 inches; F. B. Lund, '88, 10 inches, and T. H. Shepard, '88, 20 inches. It was won by J. D. Bradley, with a jump of 19ft. 11 1-2in. Lund came second with a jump of (corrected) 19ft. 9in. Record, 21ft. 3 1-2 in. by Bodlesen of Columbia...