Word: leaps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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SPRING BOARD LEAPINGwas a new feature due to the presence of Mr. Lathrop as physical assistant. Knapp, C. S., A. T. Dudley and Osgood of the sophomore class were the contestants. After a few preliminary somersaults from the board, they tried to see who could leap the highest over a bar. Dudley won, and Knapp and Osgood were even for second place. Dudley went over the bar at 8 ft., 3 1-2 in. from the ground. The spring board was nearly two feet high...
...pacing the Pont Neuf slowly and irresolutely. A human soul has been delivered over to the worm that dieth not. A sweet face is wan and pinched with agony; two wild eyes gaze down into the cold, whirling, gurgling water; there is a cry of despair, a frantic leap,-and a lost soul has rushed unsummoned to meet a just God. Next day the body is found floating, and brought to the Morgue...
...made from a spring board, or from a great elevation, or after striking the ground with his feet three or four times, as in a number of successive jumps, then the story is not so bad. If one must believe that a Greek jumped 55 feet in one leap from the level ground with weights and a run, or else doubt all Greek history, I, for my part, would prefer the latter alternative...
...athletics practiced at Athens fell under one or the other of six sports: leaping, running, throwing the discus, hurling the javelin, boxing and wrestling. No one but professionals, however, paid much attention to boxing. All these exercises, with the exception of boxing, were combined in the Pentathlon, which took place every year in the gymnasium. The winner was he who won the wrestling, which came last, and had gone successfully through the other events. In these games, leaping was always the first event. In this event a minimum leap was set, and all those failing to cover this distance lost...
...this is at once a surrender of the principle of general education, a confession that knowledges have already increased beyond our powers of classification. The elective system is the device, in fact, for eluding the difficulties of a transitional period, in which knowledge has taken a surprising leap, so that we don't yet know how to handle the new results. But the key is given in the simultaneous growth of that power of analysis and generalization which, selecting only typical details, displays the more clearly the great principles and relations of arts, sciences, and letters...