Word: vaults
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...Romeo's youthfulness, and there are several. The whole tragedy, indeed, may be described, and even explained, as a story of youthful passion. The same critic objects that the balcony is always so high. Usually, however, the balcony is so low that any lover endowed with tolerable agility could vault to the side of his mistress with the greatest of ease. The window could clearly be high enough to warrant Romeo's employment of "cords made like a tackled stair" - that is to say, a rope ladder - to reach it. There is truth, however, in the statement that Irving...
...events for the spring meeting of the Athletic Association is as follows: Hundred Yards, Half-Mile Run, Running High Jump, Mile Walk, Throwing the Hammer, Quarter-Mile Run, Running Broad Jump, Putting the Shot, Two Hundred and Twenty Yards, Mile Run, Hundred and Twenty Yards Hurdles, and Pole Vault. Efforts are being made to introduce the throwing of the discus...
...next event was the Pole Vault, for which Chase, '83, Mandell, '84, and Field, '84, entered. The bar was started at 6 feet; all went over. The bar was gradually raised, and it seemed as if they would never fail. As the it successfully, the applause became vociferous. Mr. Wendell finally announced the height of the stick at 8 feet 10 1/2 inches. At this, Mandell failed twice, but went over the third time. At 9 feet 3/4 inches, Chase retired, failing after three trials. Field soon after withdrew. Mandell failed to go higher than this and was awarded...
Miss Hautboy asked Snodkins Saturday if the large number of entries for the two-hand vault was the result of spring fever...
...first event called was the Two-hand Vault, for which there were nine entries : Messrs. T. C. Batchelder, '83; Walter Soren, '83; C. M. Field, '84; M. J. Stone, '85; C. H. Atkinson, '85; O. S. Howard, '85; H. R. Woodward,' 84; G. B. Morison, '83, and A. C. Denniston, '83. The bar was placed in position upon the entrance of the contestants, at 3.25. All went over easily until, at the eighth vault, Woodward failed to make it and consequently withdrew. But Woodward's vaulting was noticeable for its ease and grace, and received much applause; for some time...