Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interesting to those who are interested in field athletics, and the success of the Mott Haven team, to know that at the Princeton winter meeting, the following records were made: Standing high jump, H. P. Toler, '86; 4 ft. 6 1-2 in. Putting the shot, James C. Adams, '86; 35 ft. 4 3-4 in. Pole vaulting, H. P. Toler, 9 ft. 6 1-2 in. Running high jump, J. B. Harriman...
Suddenly, chancing to look over towards one of the windows during an unusually sharp blast of the sleet outside, I saw a face peering through the pane. I could not jump,-for lack of salutatory machinery,-but a thrill went through me It was my own face. It was thrust stealthily forward out of the darkness into the light of the window,-and had a look of meanness and cruelty which I would put my eyes out rather than see again. The remembrance of that distorted likeness gives me, even now, a feeling of terror and shame...
...High jump.- C. H. Atkinson, '85; H. L. Clark, '87; F. B. Fogg, '85; S. H. Fessenden...
...Broad jump.- F. B. Fogg, '85; E. H. Rogers, '87; I. H. Brewer, '88; M. R. Peck...
...purpose of the H. A. A. is to encourage athletics in all forms, not to check it. The running broad jump has its proper place in the out-door meetings, while the standing jump is only contested in the winter meeting. If it were only on account of the record Harvard has made in this event, we hope that the officers will see fit to reconsider their decision...