Word: hops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intents and purposes the prolonged baseball series is developing into a long-distance hop scotch contest in which both the University and Yale teams have steadily been one jump behind the Weatherman. When Tuesday's game was called off at New Haven, conditions were fair in Cambridge; and when both teams were at Cambridge yesterday there was an accommodating let-up in the down-pour at New Haven. Apparently the signals have been mixed somewhere. Instead of having any of the players "sent to the showers", the authorities are sending the showers after the players. Aside from the fact that...
...modern civilization. "After all" says editorial opinion, "why should the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals concern itself with the Plesiosaurus who--as his name implies--is an 'Almost-Lizzard'? May we not expect ere-long to be confronted with a Society for the Preservation of American Hop-toads, with chapters in all the public schools...
...cast follows: M. Stingem, Proprietor of the Hotel Puree-Tourine, S. W. Hovey ocC. Buttons, the Bell-hop, P. L. Cheney 2S.A. Mr. Cravat, of Cravat and Cravat, 7th Avenue, M. G. Jones '22 Mrs. Cravat, Richard Wait...
...coast for the National A. A. U. championships which are to be held there during July. The list of events is as follows: 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 440-yard dash, 880-yard run, mile run, five-mile run, 120-yard high rurdles, weight-throw, and hop, step, and jump. A number of University runners, both undergraduates and graduates, are entered in the meet. The list of entries includes E. O. Gourdin '21 in the 100-yard dash and the hop, step, and jump; J. W. Burke Unc. in the half-mile and mile runs; D. F. O'Connell...
Brown, the only Crimson man contending in any event today, will compete in the throwing of the 56-1b weight this afternoon at 3 o'clock. This is one of the two special field events to take place today, the other being the hop, step, and jump event, in which Gourdin placed third last year. Brown's most formidable opponent in the weight-throwing contest will be Dandrow of the Institute of Technology team. Many expect the Latter, who won second place in the hammer-throw at the Intercollegiates last spring, to break all previous records today...