Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...following men have been appointed to take charge at the polls. Any one unable to report is requested to send a substitute. From 8-9: L. K. Lunt '09 and M. B. Van Brunt '08; 9-10: P. Brooks '09 and E. F. Hanfstaengl '09; 10-11: R. G. McKay '11 and F. H. Burr '09; 11-12: H. McCall '09 and P. F. Huidekoper '09; 12-1: F. A. Forster '10 and J. Lowell, Jr., '08; 1-2: S. D. Bush, 2nd, '09 and M. Dorr '09; 2-3: G. Biddle '08 and N. S. Simpkins...
There was no "blunder" nor was there "unexplainable lack of judgment." A very little sane consideration will show this conclusively, now that the first keen disappointment in losing a race which, frankly, everyone expected to win, is over. What were the facts? Van Brunt was an experienced runner, the only "H" man qualified to make the relay team and the only one who had had previous experience on University relay teams. He has made better time in the half-mile run than any other man in College. He had had sufficient practice. A bad ankle, which had prevented his training...
Harvard lost the relay race with Yale in the Boston Athletic Association's nineteenth annual indoor meet, at Mechanics Hall, Saturday night, owing to Van Brunt's collapse in the last lap of his relay. The 1911 team, however, decisively beat the Yale freshmen. The Sophomores won the interclass race in a close finish with the Juniors. A number of Harvard undergraduates and graduates took part in the individual events, L. W. Bangs '08 doing especially creditable work by winning the 16-pound shot...
...University relay race with Yale each man ran, six laps, a total of 780 yards per man. Van Brunt started the race for Harvard and followed closely behind Kirjassoff of Yale until the sixth lap, when his strength gave out and he fell fifty yards from the finish. It was evident early in the race that he was not in fit condition for so long a distance and that a substitute should have run in his stead. He showed great pluck, however, and after falling managed to totter to the finish, where he was relieved by Haskell. Haskell started over...
Harvard-Yale University race--Won by Yale (M. Kirjassoff, R. L. Spitzer, R. La Montagne, L. Stevens); second, Harvard (M. B. Van Brunt '08, P. C. Huskell '08, E. K. Merrihew '10, H. Watson '10). Time...