Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...couple of champions attending the meet, from the Moses Brown School of Providence, are Marshall Kingsbury, holder of the Harvard schoolboy cross country record and the 2 mile record at the Brown interscholastic meet, and George Weaver, high jump champion of Rhode Island, who has done 5 feet 11 inches...
...been credited with performances that would win them a place on almost any college track team. Among these is John Crowley, of the Roxbury School in Cheshire, Connecticut, who has attained renown in interscholastic circles as a weight man and jumper. He has heaved the 12-pound shot 51 feet 9 inches and the discus well over 140 feet. He can high jump 5 feet 9 inches and has covered over 20 feet in the broad jump. J. S. Birge also of Roxbury School has stepped the 100 in 10 seconds flat and has been clocked in the furlong...
...student can learn a great deal by sitting two or three times a week at the feet of a master of literature and science, without doing outside reading or other work," is the opinion of Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Columbia who is strongly in favor of the plan. A Columbia student will be permitted to take one or possibly two such courses and it is thought that they will serve an excellent purpose...
...Charles River last week, three Princeton crews beat three M. I. T. crews. Princeton did not use its mysterious new shell, The Flying Dutchman. This shell, anonymously given, appeared prepaid one day at the Princeton boat house. It is eight feet shorter than the average shell, and nine inches wider. Flatbottomed, it is designed to skim the water rather than cut it. When it goes fast, it rises out of the water like a motor boat...
Lincoln Fogarty adds to Brown's strength by his phenomenal ability in the javelin throw. He has a decided advantage over T. G. Moore '29, the foremost Crimson thrower. Carney, the leading Bruin threat in the broad jump, has been doing 23 feet lately...