Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former intercollegiate champion and holder of the intercollegiate hammer throw record has been practicing every afternoon behind the Stadium. He graduated from Bowdoin last year and is now studying at Tufts. His 181 foot 6 1-2 inch hammer throw in the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet last spring was the most brilliant individual performance...
...this spring because of his illness. His absence will be a serious loss to the Freshman track team, as he was an outstanding performer not only in the hammer throw, but also the pole vault and both high and low hurdles, in which events he is an interscholastic record holder...
Briefly, Mr. George's theory seems to be one of developing social responsibility. A thief may steal from an honest property-holder without a second thought, but when all the thieves form a little community of wage-earners within Mr. George's series of enclosures, the point of view changes with surprising swiftness. The enterprising burglar degenerates into the commonplace crook, and the newcomer's statement of "Ladies and gentlemen. I have come to live with you; I am a pick-pocket!" is received with coolness, not to say suspicion...
Channing Wakefield 3L. is the present holder of the University squash title, having won the championship over W. P. Dixon '25 on March 12 of last year by the following score...
...tournament yesterday, the four men who were seeded by the managing committee at the opening of the contest have worked into the semifinals which will be played before the week is up. They are: W. P. Dixon '25, captain of the University team, C. C. Peabody, the present title holder, R. A. Powers of the B. A. A., and Channing Wakefield 3L. of the Lincoln's Inn Society...