Word: discus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the finish. He turned his eyes for a fraction of a second. A runner flashed past to win the race by inches. The runner was Herbert Cornell. His victory gave Cornell's team five points-enough, with five more for Walter Wood's first in the discus throw, a substantial block of points for seconds, thirds, fourths & fifths, to win the team championship, 29½-to Harvard's 19 16/21 Dartmouth...
Other points for the Cambridgites came with Gerry Downer's third in the 100-meters dash with the brilliant time of 10.7 seconds for the winner. Downer followed Scanion, however, whom he beat earlier in the season. Mal Millard captured a rather discouraging third in the discus, tossing the platter about 148 feet, ten feet behind Wood of Cornell and four behind Kishon of Bates...
...conference groups, modeled after those of History 1, could then deal more fully and expertly with the problems of high and low grade men. While in the "C" sections the primary object would be to insure that the basic course material is covered adequately, the conference groups would discus the assigned work only to clear up the difficulties in the reading and would then study further the works and the life of the author under consideration...
Harvard's lead whittled down in the field events by these two men, as well as by a corps of discus, shotput, and javelin men, will be further decreased by the Holy Cross runners. In Walter Janiak and Larry Scanlon the Purple has two of the speediest dashmen in New England for the 100-meter and furlong events. Nothing was seen in the Stadium last Saturday to give Harvard much grounds for optimism in these two events...
...Discus--J. H. Herrick '38, 149 ft., 7 in. (20 ft.); second, B. M. Litman '38, 143 ft., 3 3/4 in. (30 ft.); third, M. Millard '36, 138 ft., 10 1/2 in. (scratch...