Word: leap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kane '26 and R. G. Allen '26 all ran well, Allen's phenomenal sprint on the last lap, coming within a few yards of tieing for first place. Equally unexpected was the high-jumping of S. B. Jones '26, which won first place in that event. The actual leap was 5 feet 11 inches, while a handicap of one inch increased the total to six feet. Inasmuch as Jones never did better than 5 feet 8 inches at school, the extra height speaks well for his improvement this fall...
...addition to this, another record fell and one was equaled when Moody of Mediord wreeked the high-jump mark with a leap of 5 feet 7 1-4 inches while Richards of Newton High tied the 220-yard low hurdles time...
...dial. The present system calls for thirteen months of twenty-eight days each, a New Year's Day without date, the week to begin on Monday, and would cause the day of the month always to fall on the same day of the week. Every four years, a Leap Year Day will be thrust bodily into the calendar at the end of June...
...college proper has become famous all ever the country for its engineering courses. Making use of the shops and laboratories of Schenectady, it promises to become one of the best technical centres in the world. Rochester University, after fifty years of slow progress, has begun to leap forward amazingly. Since 1918 George Eastman has given it $4,500,000 to build and endow what should be one of the first schools of music anywhere. Last year the university obtained $4,000,000 from Mr. Eastman, $5,000,000 from the General Education Board, and $1,500,000 from another source...
...University who before the spring meet had not accomplished much on the track. The meet certainly justified Coach Bingham's theory that it is better to have a well-rounded-out team than a few stars. Gourdin again broke his record in the broad-jump with a leap of 24 feet 4 inches, only half an inch less than the Intercollegiate record...