Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognition. It would be a happy coincidence if fifty feet was reached for the first time after exactly fifty years of competition and no one would begrudge the record holder the thrill that such a put would bring. All that is needed to produce a record is ideal weather...
...make such a performance and the hurdler will have to have similar conditions to make possible the chance of equalling this record. The day Thomson made the record he was in his best physical condition; he had an exceptionally good bunch of hurdlers to force him; the day was ideal for a record-breaking performance...
...students. He had developed a conception of human conduct which asserted "the supreme importance of the ethical factor in all the relations of life -personal, social, national and international-apart from any theological or metaphysical consideration." But his class duties hampered him in the propagation of this ideal. So with rather unprofessorial audacity he abandoned his chair, went to Manhattan and organized his first Ethical Cultural Society...
...ideal way to stage the intercollegiate quarter-mile event would be on a course without a bend, but such a plan is impracticable. The only scheme of conducting the event in lanes is fair to the competitors and yet not entirely satisfactory because the man-to-man element is diminished by the staggered starting marks. So long as the race is conducted under present conditions there is bound to be some jockeying, but I think it is to the credit of the I.C.A.A.A.A. competitors that the championship races down through the years have been fought in clean, manly fashion...
...first race of the season yesterday afternoon the Freshman 150-pound crew trailed the M. I. T. first year lightweights to the finish by two and a half lengths. Rowing under ideal conditions, the powerful Tech combination turned in the fast time of 5 minutes, 442 seconds over the mile course...