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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...broad jump, Ford having reaped twenty-two feet in a practice trial. With Captain Jim Braden, of the Eli team, putting the short forty-six feet, and with Carter Gale nearly forty-four, Yale should win two places in this event in any meet. Galt is Yale's best entry in the hammer-throw, but Otis, the former football tackle, is also a probable point winner in this event. Acosta, Vorys, Morris, and Captain Gates of the football team also form a fine field of weight throwers...
...upshot was that President Eliot and a fellow oarsmen were dispatched post-haste to Boston to supply the deficiency. The idea of brightly colored handkerchiefs occurring to them, the two entered a dry goods store and from a varied assortment of colored scarfs many selected Crimson as having the best visibility from a distance. Consequently Crimson Handkerchiefs were worn that day on the heads of the Harvard oarsmen and the hue came to be accepted almost at once as the University color...
...another sport. I think the undergraduates who really pate in more than two or three sports. I think the undergraduates who really control the original selection of men at the head of undergraduate activities can be relied upon to distribute the positions in a way to accomplish the best results...
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, May 2.-- Princeton, upholding the affirmative, won by a unanimous decision over the Harvard debating team, at Princeton. The best speech for Harvard was made by J. Tutun '20, while Hendrickson and Stevens of Princeton were judged superior in rebuttal...
...shoulders, and that the entire time of a few office holders should not be given for the benefit of the remainder of the student body. But it is doubtful whether the artificial method in vogue at New Haven and to be voted on at Princeton is best suited for obtaining the end in view...