Word: lows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale has a fine track team--well balanced, well coached, alert, competent. In toppling Princeton 86-49, Yale won the 100 yards in 10s, the 220 in 21 7-10s, the quarter in 49s, the two miles in 9.54 7-10, the low hurdles in 23 3-5s, the shot at 44.5 1-2, the hammer at 165.2 1-2, (breaking a record of 25 years' standing), the discus at 135.7 1-4 and the pole vault at 13.4. Furthermore, two other Yale vaulters cleared 12.5, and its best high hurdler was a scant three yards behind...
...been deliberately discarded. There are some aspects of it which will in all probability remain as long as the colleges do, for the human attachment to ceremony is strong. Commencement crowds look for a certain amount if it, but in a university where oratory has generally sunk so low in undergraduate favor, it would seem that if unwilling Seniors must still speak at their graduation, the audience might be given the choice of a counter-attraction...
...Record '32, captain of the Crimson First Year team is practically certain of a first in both the high and low hurdles, his times in this season's meet surpassing some turned in by University performers. E. N. Core '32 and J. W. Crickard '32, his two teammates should also figure in the scoring in these events. Another outstanding star is N. P. Hallowell '32 captain of the Freshman cross country team last fall, whose time for the 880 has excelled any performed in University meets this season. His 1.56 3-5 in the University handicap meet bordered...
Hereby has Harvard, with a reputation for doing consistently right by its faculty, set a precedent that the rest of the universities on the Carnegie list must follow. Comparatively low salaries, painfully slow promotion, and constant demands for more and more esoteric research have already brought the teaching profession into bad enough repute without adding the prospects of a penniless old age. Some financial provision must be made for the retirement of devoted servants who have divided their activity between expounding the learned book and worrying over the account book...
...yard low hurdles--First two men in each heat qualified. First heat--won by R. H. O'Connell '30; second, Minehan (D), Time-26 sec. Second heat--won by G. A. Tupper '29; second, Marsters (D). Time--25 4-5 sec. Final--won by Tupper second, O'Connell; third, Marsters Time...