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...leading the varsity to its first victory on the new five mile course at Franklin Park, the combination of Benjamin and Fitzgerald repeated its run-away performance of last week's Cornell meet, by far out-distancing all oppposition well before the half-way mark...
...running of the one-two punch, Benjamin and Fitzgerald. Benjamin, who seems to have regained the top form he showed as a sophomore, moved out front in the early stages of the race and ran evenly with Cummins of Cornell at the front of the pack. At the half-way point, Fitzgerald, running splendidly in his varsity debut, caught up with the leaders and then eased out in front with Benjamin...
Labaree liked the small classes of twelve which forced the teacher to "go out more than half-way," especially in elementary courses. "The teacher must identify himself with the students more than with the subject. He has to teach the students history; he can't merely teach history to the students. There's some analogy to this in the college section, but very little in the lecture." Labaree found teaching immensely to his liking. "I guess this is the bug; once it catches on, you never give teaching...
Those who avoided arguing with him found other cause for offense. His over-effusive greetings from half-way across the Yard were generally considered in poor taste. And the Rev. Sherrard Billings, another classmate, observed: "When it was not considered good form to move at more than a walk, Roosevelt was always running...
Julius traveled in a group of five or six, and went the first half-way by train, the second half by truck. "Unfortunately," he recounts, "the border police stopped the truck; we had no alibi, and so they arrested us and held us for six hours. They took our names, and told us to go back to Budapest, but we kept on in the direction of the Austrian border." They crossed the bridge at Andau, which was later blown up by the Russians...