Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each man should run threatened to result in a discontinuance of diplomatic relations. The humorists who claimed that they had only been training for two hours objected seriously to running more than a lap apiece; the scribes who had been training conscientiously for two months in anticipation of this classic event maintained that each man should run at least two laps and preferably three; the literary men, believing that discretion was the better part of valor, wisely refrained from expressing an opinion. As a compromise, Coach Bingham, decided that the distance should be a lap and a half...
Definite announcement that the annual CRIMSON-Lampoon hockey game for the classic grand challenge cup would be played between the periods of the Harvard-Yale contest Saturday evening was made last night following a long conference between the CRIMSON management and George V. Brown of the Boston Arena. Only the pusillanimity of the Jester's hordes can now prevent the clash with the University daily. Preparations are being made for an opening eight-minute period, to be followed, in case the comic cohorts come up for more, by a second session of similar duration...
Besides the race against Penn, Yale is scheduled to race twice before the annual classic on the Thames; against Columbia on April 30 and against Cornell and Princeton on May 21, the last one a week before the University meets the crew from Ithaca...
...Herrick served as head coach in 1916, when he developed the University crew which defeated Yale and covered the Thames course in the record time of 20 minutes and 2 seconds. Two years previous, in 1914, he coached the second crew so that it captured the classic grand challenge cup at the English Henley. At different times he has coached the Union Boat Club crews, going abroad with them for the last English Henley...
...Brien's story of his visit among the child-like cannibals in the vale of Atuona, under the peak of Temotiu, has already won rank as a classic among books of travel. Although its author will never be held a great stylist, he is supremely readable. What is more important, he has the power to make his reader see the scenes which he describes so colorfully and know the quaint characters that live between his pages...