Word: showings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...foot limit; 600-yard dash, 30-yard limit; 45-yard high hurdle race, 3 flights, 3 ft. 6 in high, 9-foot limit; 1000-yard run 50-yard limit; one-mile run, 60-yard limit; putting 16-pound shot, 6-foot limit; high-jump, 6 inch limit. Competitors must show that they have put the 16-pound shot 38 ft., and high-jumped 5 ft. 3 in. in competition, in order to qualify for these events...
...writer has in mind that character familiar to all of us and so deserving of sympathy. The energetic and able young man, who is careless enough to show his ability early in his career, finds himself at the end of his Junior year the secretary of this organization, the treasurer of that, a member of an executive committee of still another society, and probably implicated more or less in athletics at the same time. When he is finally chosen for a class committee in his last year, he will probably begin to realize the absurdity of the whole thing. First...
...enemy's fleet lay at anchor. Immediately the whole country rang with the praises of this daring young officer--until a newspaper story stamped him as vain and sentimental. It was the same with the man who won the battle of Manila Bay. When our nation, anxious to show its gratitude to Admiral Dewey, presented him with a house, he turned it over to his wife, and immediately "mud" was thrown at the "ungrateful" recipient...
...schedules for 1908-09 show some interesting changes. They have not all been approved as yet but they are being drawn up on the following basis. A schedule of twenty-three games is being prepared for the baseball team as opposed to twenty-seven last year, a reduction of fifteen per cent. The basketball schedule was cut in half by reducing the number from sixteen to eight, while the hockey team is scheduled for ten games as opposed to thirteen last year. The football schedule contained ten games last fall, the same as the previous year. The schedule...
...University Catalogue, which will be issued today, shows a total enrolment this year of 6107, a decrease of 76 from last year's figures. The Bussey Institution and the Afternoon and Saturday Courses for Teachers have been discontinued, causing a large falling off, which is partially offset, however, by the Graduate School of Business Administration. The College, the Lawrence, Scientific School, the Law School, the Medical School and the Dental School all have smaller enrolments than last year, while the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School of Applied Science each show a slight increase. The Divinity...