Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School is under consideration for the presidency of the University of Wisconsin if reports from Madison are true. The special committee to choose Wisconsin's next president will report definitely on their choice within 30 days...
Mile. Last week, on the indoor track of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Paavo Nurmi of Finland made his first appearance in the U. S. His first event was a mile race. Nurmi, a thin, blond man, wore a jersey of robin's egg blue, trunks of black. In his right hand, he carried the little watch by which he timed his stride. He disdained, at the start, the conventional crouch. Ray (Illinois A. C.) and Hahn (Boston A. A.) both got away from the pistol before him. Through the first lap, while his competitors jostled for position, Nurmi kept...
...Metres. The track in Madison Square Garden has eleven laps to the mile (approximately 34 laps to the 5,000 metres). Willie Ritola, brother Finn, old rival of Nurmi, took the lead. At his heels came the flying robin's-egg jersey. Lap after lap the two circled, the field after them. Two laps from home Nurmi sprinted, left a gap of 5 yards, widened it to 10, to 15. Gamely Ritola hung on, his face twisted like a mask of torture, but this time Nurmi did not turn to look. Running like a sprinter who, throughout an afternoon...
...towel- soggy, bloodstained, ragged-sailed over the top rope of the fight ring in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Sock! it landed on the canvas, right at the heels of a battered little man with a streaming gash over his right eye. The little man was rocking to and fro under showers of blows from a furious, compact human whirlwind that flew now at his head, now at his ribs, now at his jaw, now at his pounding heart...
...Madison, Wis., the unrest took a particular form. Scott H. Goodnight, dean of men at the University of Wisconsin, spoke roundly to the sophomore council: "A tradition is being established outside of Wisconsin . . . that we are a bunch of cake eaters.¹ Does not our record of parties and dances go to substantiate this tradition? There are 80 fraternities and sororities on the campus that put on a dance or party on the average of once a month. There are ten fraternities that have an average of two dances a month and one . . . an average of three...