Word: beating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chamberlain will try to beat the Harvard record of 37 feet, putting the 16 lb. shot, and will use an iron shot...
...running high jump Saturday, Mr. H. L. Clark will try to beat the gymnasium record of 5 ft. 9 in. made by him last Saturday...
...door neighbor says: 'A man stuck on himself is the most pitiable of mortals, for he knows not the infinite pleasure of calling himself an ass." The East, on the whole, has too good an opinion of herself. Harvard, Yale and Princeton so frequently announce that they cannot be beat that many gradually believe them. We, too, should like to believe so, but somehow or other we can never induce ourselves to consider a man good who has first to say that he is good...
...second winter meeting at Yale, Brown, '86, won the high kick, 8 feet 10 3-4 inches. The '87 S. tug-of-war team beat the college '87 team by 13 inches...
...most freshman crews, but as they were practically thrown out of the class races before the start by the breaking of their rudder, they had no chance to show what they could or could not do. By the end of June they had got into very good form, and beat the Columbia freshmen by nearly a minute. This year there are at present four men from '88 trying for the University, crew, Butler, Bradlee, and Porter, of last year's freshman crew, and Wood, who did not try for the last year. Several of these men are sure to come...