Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City of New York are included. Nearly every state university in the country is on the list, including such famous ones as the University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan. University of Minnesota, Ohio State University and others. Among smaller colleges of high standing are Rutgers, Lehigh, Lafayette, Georgetown, Boston University, and Western Reserve. The number includes many technical institutes, and practically all of the agricultural colleges. There is a large sprinkling of denominational and semi-denominational schools. In all of these colleges and universities military training is now an accepted reality...
...colleges and universities from all parts of the East have entered 264 runners for today's run, the seventh annual 1. C.A. A. A. A. meet. The other institutions to be represented this afternoon are Bates, Boston College, Colby, College of the City of New York, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Lafayette, Maine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Penn. State, University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, Princeton, Rutgers, Syracuse, Union, Williams and Yale...
...Washington, D. C., the needle of the seismograph at Georgetown University twitched nervously; later, it jazzed. An earthquake, 2,400 miles distant, was registered...
...course of the afternoon, he saw the runners of the University of Southern California win the 120-yd. hurdles, the 220-yd. hurdles, the discus throw, the Intercollegiate Track and Field Championship, with Princeton second, Yale third. He saw two runners-Tierney of Holy Cross, Marsters of Georgetown-each miss by just half a second his famed intercollegiate records for the quarter, for the half mile, respectively. Together with 7,000 other spectators, he was entertained, that afternoon, by one dramatic event. It occurred when Sherrill of Pennsylvania, having won the pole vault with a jump...
...half-mile was won last year by Watters, who also captured the 1924 Intercollegiate title. Last week this runner came in fourth, covering the distance in 1 minute 55 3-10 esconds, but still nearly two seconds behind the winner, Marsters of Georgetown. Both Haggerty and Barker can run the half in under 1 minute 58 seconds, whereas Gibson, the best Eli half-miler, usually breaks the tape in a fraction over 1 minute 58 seconds. When pressed Gibson may show something better, but the chances look good for a Crimson cleanup in the half...