Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course running shoes, board and cinder tracks, take-off boards for the broad-jump, poles for the pole-vault, and the system of coaching have all been improved and necessarily have a bearing upon these records. Yet, by merely glancing at them, it may be seen that even grammar school boys of today could compete with the University record holders of 1875. Moreover, these records run on such a poor average that it would be possible for any all-round track athlete to break every one of the records in a single afternoon...
...yard dash the records of 1875 and 1915 vary even more. C. S. Bird '77 held this record in 1875, his time being 60 seconds. One year later H. C. Dunham '77 cut two seconds from this time, and in 1878 R. Bacon '80 set up a new record of 54 seconds. In the next three years 3 1-4 seconds were clipped from Bacon's record, E. J. Wendell '82 reducing it by 1-2 second, and W. H. Goodwin, Jr., '84 lowering it to 50 3-4 seconds. This record stood for nine years, until W. C. Downes...
...support it. If the majority of voters believe this today, all those men who believe the Union to be a failure; all those for whom its services are so small that they take no interest in it whatever; and all those whose slim purses would keep them from joining even at a $6 fee; all these are to be compelled to join the Union. And yet yesterday's writer naively said that to call it compulsion is "a waste of time...
...University nine has the edge on its opponents in games won, having carried off all its contests except one defeat and one tie, both setbacks occurring during the Southern trip. In team-work the opposing nines are practically even, Princeton having a fielding average of .935 against the slightly higher .956 of the University, while the batting averages give Princeton a shade the advantage with .243 against...
...Even thought it is too late to change the present list of nominees, the choice in June ought to be made with particular attention to this point...