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Tootell, the present I. C. A. A. A. A. record holder was a young man of 22, six feet one inch in height and weighing 210 pounds at his heaviest. Johnny Merchant of California was in my opinion the greatest little man that ever threw the hammer. Merchant weighed about 185 pounds and stood about five feet ten inches in height; he held the I. C. A. A. A. A. record in 1922. Another great little man was Bill Quinn, the former field coach at Harvard, who weighed only 163 pounds and could throw the hammer 165 feet...
Tootell's greatest improvement came in his Senior year. His best mark up to that year was 158 feet, yet in his last year he threw consistently 175 to 185 feet; this last mark which he set at Bowdoin College is the college record. His improvement was also marked in his ability to stay in the circle with two or three turns. I have often seen him take three turns and still have from 12 to 18 inches to spare from the front of the circle...
Probably the trips ashore represent the newest ideas and the greatest differences from a regular tourist or sightseeing trip. On the trips ashore it has seemed wise to establish the policy that students may not take side trips apart from the entire party. The value of these trips will be enhanced by the personal contacts that are made and the places that may be visited from an educational standpoint under the guidance of representatives of the foreign governments or of the local university or other educational organizations...
...general postgraduate work, or those who want to take probably their only opportunity for travel before they enter business or a profession to see the world before they settle down. After they once become engrossed in business, the opportunity may come too lace in life to be of the greatest good...
...Meredith set the present 440 yard record for the I.C.A.A.A.A. meet he ran the 100 yards in 10 seconds, the 220 in 21 4-5 and the 440 in 49, winning all three events. That afternoon's work, turned in against Dartmouth in 1916, assured me that Pennsylvania's greatest runner was fit and ready for record-smashing...