Word: cross
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual cross-country consolation race will be held over the regular six mile Chestnut Hill course at 4 o'clock tomorrow. The race will be open to all members of the University not now on the training table. Entries may be made in the blue-book now at Leavitt & Peirce's. Cups will be awarded to the winners...
...defeat such as the cross-country team experienced yesterday does not occur without a good reason. It is hard to believe that the trouble is with the runners, because they are drawn from the University and Freshman track teams of last year, both of which made excellent records. Moreover, our cross-country teams heretofore, some of which have had superior material, have won very few races. We believe that the fault lies with the irregular system under which the sport is carried on, and that a change in the present short-sighted economy of the Athletic Association by which...
Track athletes are divided in opinion as to the value of cross-country racing as a sport in itself, and as to its effect on other sports. As one of the most strenuous forms of exercise followed in the colleges, it certainly needs the careful oversight of experienced trainers and coaches if it is not to be attended by injurious results. But as long as Harvard teams are allowed to compete in the event, and men are encouraged to come out for them, there should be competent coaching, in order that the risk of injury may be minimized and that...
...University cross-country team will race the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this afternoon at 2.45 o'clock. The race will be held over the old Technology course, starting opposite the Highland Club in West Roxbury, crossing the Larz Anderson estate, and finishing on the Technology Field near Brookline Village, where the last quarter of a mile will be run on the track. The distance to be covered is slightly more than four miles, and the course is a difficult one. The record for the course is held by H. Jaques, Jr., '11, who won the race last year...
Parker. Fellowships--Latham Clarke, Ph.D., of West Kingston, R. I., S. B. (Rhode Island Coll.) 1902, A.M. (Brown Univ.) 1903, Ph.D. (Harvard Univ.) 1905, Instructor in Chemistry, student of Chemistry. T. P. Cross, 4G., of Norfolk, Va., A.B. (Hampden-Sidney Coll.) 1899, S.B. (ibid.) 1900, A.M. (Harvard Univ.) 1906, Edward Austin Fellow, candidate for Ph.D., student of Celtic and Comparative Literature. H. G. Leach, 4G., of Cape May City, N. J., A.B. (Princeton Univ.) 1903, A.M. (Harvard Univ.) 1906, Ph.D. (ibid) 1908, Edward William Hooper Fellow at Copenhagen, student of Scandinavian...