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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...30Crimson Concert Master: Prekofleff--Peter and the Wolf. 8:30 Piano Contest. 9:00 9 O'Clock Jump. 9:30 Harrison M. Rainie 1G, tenor. 9:45 Crimson Concert Hall: K. P. E. Bach--Concerto for Orchestra in D Major. Sibelius--Violin Concerto. 10:45 "Mother O'Toole, Biddie of Harvard"--skit. News...
Harvard came off with a 46 1/3 to 44 2/3 triumph over the Army trackmen at West Point Saturday afternoon by virtue of a win in the one lap relay and six much-needed points in the broad jump. Valuable points in the hurdles, the pole vault, and the high jump early in the afternoon kept the Mikkolamen close to the Cadets until the last two events...
...Watkins, Corbett, Pirnie, and Donahue foursome won the final relay by about ten feet in 2:13.2, and Pirnie squeezed out a third in the broad jump. Bob Partlow won the event with a leap of 22 feet five inches. Previously, he and John Bunker had tied for first in the high jump...
...about Jackson Haines, the father of figure skating. Jackson Haines was not the first skater to trace a pattern on ice. As far back as 1642, there was a skating club in Edinburgh, whose membership was confined to those who could "skate a complete circle on each foot and jump over first one, then two, then three hats." In 1863, when Haines won the figure-skating championship of the U. S., the sport consisted of stiff tracings judged only by accuracy. Haines, a New Yorker who had studied ballet, was the first skater to put form into figure skating...
...Greenfield jump with its eight terraces for spectators is well known. From the edge of the cement take-off to the beginning of the level outrun, there is a drop of 120 feet. On February 22, Greenfield will hold an open invitation jump. Greenfield, too, has a marvelous toboggan chute, on which 60 to 70 miles an hour have been clocked...