Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team will meet Dorchester High School at the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. pool this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The 1919 team has been successful so far this season, but the Dorchester swimmers will be the hardest they have opposed so far in the season. The team is fast and well-balanced except in the department of diving, where there is a call for new material to report at the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. tank tomorrow at 4.30 o'clock...
...weakest point in Cornell's squad is the quarter-mile. For several years the Ithacans have not had a star 440 man, and this year they have no one as fast as Willcox of the university team. Cornell is, however, unusually strong in the distance events. Windnagle, with a record of 1.56 to his credit, is the best of a good squad of half-milers. Cornell is equally strong in the mile and two-mile races...
Columbia's plans for a national industrial engineering research centre are fast taking shape. Two sites have already been offered for the proposed laboratories. It is proposed to erect immediately research laboratories to cost $350,000, with equipment to cost $150,000. The entire project calls for an ultimate endowment of from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. In speaking of the plans, Dean Goetze said, "If this country would start at once building up its industries as Germany has done, it would be true preparedness. To aid this work on a national scale, Columbia has planned these research...
...bequests like that of Mrs. Swann. The professors have gained but little in salary, a fact to which the authorities 'point with regret.' Princeton's development from 1905 to 1915 has been truly remarkable. But so has the expansion of many another university. Undergraduates are the beneficiaries of a fast-mounting expenditure...
According to the latest figures available last night, nearly 1000 copies of the University Catalogue have been distributed in the first two days of the sale. The entire edition, totalling 9000 copies, is arriving from the binders in sections, as fast as the books are made...