Word: champion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...season might perhaps close victoriously. The University has won but one meet, and that its first, with Bowdoin. The following, with Pennsylvania, Annapolis, and Springfield Training School have all been lost, owing undoubtedly to a great extent to the continuing illness of Captain W. H. Russell '18, amateur champion of America...
...influence of the carefully wrought sentences of Athens and Rome. Never was there a time when young men needed so sorely a training in that mental concentration and in those orderly ways of thought which are bred by the reading of highly inflected languages. But it is paradoxical to champion the Classics on the ground of their practical advantages. Their chief value cannot be measured by materialistic standards. Since they form the corner stone of the humanities, they fulfill their highest function in affording their, devotes the noble opportunity of repudiating the utilitarian theory of education
Individually, the team is strong in the 100-yard and 220-yard swims with Captain B. M. Fullerton '16 and H. Wentworth '17, and in the diving with M. Blanchard '18, the amateur champion of New England. J. A. Machado '17, J. W. D. Seymour '17, and W. L. Monro '16, judging by their work in trials, should place well in the meet this afternoon. As A. Dixon '16, the University's first-string plunger, is ill, W. L. Monro '16 will be the University's only entry in the plunge for distance...
...individual entries, the best-known stars include Joseph Ray, the A. A. U. mile champion; D. S. Caldwell, of the B. A. A., who will also run in the mile; Hannes Kolehmainen of the Irish-American A. C.; J. G. Loomis of the Chicago A. A., national champion in the sprints; Thomas Halpin, of the B. A. A.; and Alma Richards of Cornell, the Olympic champion high-jumper...
...yard dash Joseph Loomis, of the Chicago A. A., national champion in the sprints, will make his first appearance in Boston. Other leading competitors will be David Politzer of the I. A. A. C., last year's winner, and Irving Howe, of the Boston...