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...chance of breaking the tape, since he has travelled the distance this year in record time. Fogg of Syracuse has been a close second to his team-mate in all their races this spring, but will not run because of a bad tendon. Barron will have Bennett of Cornell, Haff of Pennsylvania, and Farrar of Yale to contend with for second place...
...curve. In the meantime Sawyer of Princeton was taking his pace from Kelley and at the beginning of the straightaway passed him and started after Young. The latter rose to the occasion and exerted all his strength, running the last 100 yards in a phenomenal manner. Gamble and Haff of Michigan overtook Kelley 30 yards from the finish but were unable to catch Sawyer. Captain MacArthur of Cornell and Hough of Pennsylvania followed the Michigan men in at the finish...
...Record, 48 4-5s., J. B. Taylor, Penn., 1907. H. W. Kelley (H.), W. J. H. Hough (Penn.), E. G. MacArthur (Cor.), D. B. Young (A.), H. S. Gamble (Mich.), C. B. Haff (Mich.), H. Sawyer (Pr.), L. R. Wood (Wes.), J. D. Lester...
...rule, to the vowel o, manifest a decided aversion to the broad a (as in father), with an inclination to make the r painfully distinct. Untrammelled by dictionaries, both pronounce such words as aunt, haunt, daunt, cant, etc., ant, hant, dant, cant, while half and laugh are emasculated into haff and laff. Iron, which authority allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted into the unnecessarily painful irrun. The South, notwithstanding its fondness for calling party pawty, manages by some inscrutable means to satisfy its orthoepical conscience in mutilating palm, calm, psalm into pam, cam, psam, and beer, tear, steer...
...last, etc., invariably parst, farst, larst, only the r is not distinct. Whether he is right in saying demand, command, castle, example, I won't undertake to decide; he certainly has much authority on his side. Perhaps, however, the safest way to shun the extremities represented by the Western haff and laff and the Yankee's parst and larst is to follow the medio tutissimus ibis rule of Ovid...