Word: broading
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...shot. Mr. J. C. Lee, who is at present the holder of the world's championship at high kicking, will try to break his record of 9 ft. 8 in. Samuel Crook, the famous jumper of Williams College, will endeavor to break the world's record in the broad jump...
...practice. There is a space for fielding practice, throwing to bases first and second, from the catcher's position, batting, to a limited extent base running, and base sliding. For the latter purpose a bed of sand is in preparation which will serve also for the use of running broad jumpers. Base-ball practice at present continues daily from 12 m. to 2 p. m.; track athletics from 5 p. m. to 6 p. m.; lacrosse and foot-ball practice during intermediate hours...
...great evil of our American civilization is its uniformity. Uniformity in the common school education, uniformity of standards in thought and in action always check a broad development of intellectual life. Then there grows the absolute tyranny of public opinion that stifles all that is good in individuality...
...college association, but if he refuses to enter, as is probable, Sherman, of Yale, will be a hard man to beat. Goodwin, Yale, '90, is another good man if his health will allow him to enter. She man also has a good chance to win a prize in the broad jump and pole-vault, although Robinson, Yale, '89, has an equal chance in the jump...
...ideal newspaper will, in my judgment, print all the news-carefully discriminating, however, ascertained fact from rumor and from conjecture, giving to each subject space and importance in proportion to its just value relatively to other subjects, in the eyes of an intelligent, high-minded and broad minded public, and never considering who or what will be helped or harmed by the publication of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The ideal journal's statements of fact will never be colored by prejudice, passion, bombast or humor (so called,) but will be rigorously exact, and will...