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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tibbetts '26 is perhaps the greatest of Crimson two-milers and distance men. A lean, wiry, middle-height individual, with a smooth untiring stride, he has run some of the finest races in Crimson track history. In the Triangular meet of 1925 he was destined to score the fourth new record. He came up against the widely heralded entry from Hanover, Osgood, who had smashed the Dartmouth record a week before, and against Craig of Cornell. The race turned out to be one of Tibbetts against time, in which the former won by 11 2-5 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Triumphs Add Lustre to Triangular Meet History | 2/21/1928 | See Source »

...saying that the church was infected with "fatty degeneration of the heart, pernicious anemia, cerebrospinal meningitis, cancer, and neuritis." Not the least cogent and discouraging explanation was supplied by the New York Herald-Tribune which mischievously remarked that only in times of physical distress were spiritual remedies at the height of their popularity, and that "Christian principles forbid them [the churches] to wish for the kind of change that would benefit them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Converts | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

Pole vault Won by B. G. Burbank '28; second, F. B. Clark '28; third, R. R. Impink '28. Height, 12 feet, 6 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRAMURAL SHOTPUT EVENT CAPTURED BY GUARNACCIA | 2/17/1928 | See Source »

Pole vault--Won by Lee (A); second, Pickett (A); third, Pierce (A). Height...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1931 WEEKEND SPORT SUMMARIES | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...University team had a slight advantage over the opponents in height and weight, but the improved teamwork and general spirit of the players appear to have been the decisive factors in the larger score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIDDLEBURY QUINTET OVERWHELMED 59 TO 35 | 1/10/1928 | See Source »

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