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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outdoor two-mile run, his time being 9 minutes 1 and two-fifths seconds. If he runs here on May 7, he will make the third deliberate assault upon a record in recent years. "Jole" Ray and Paavo Nurmi made gallant attempts to lower the world's mile mark in 1923 and 1925. Both covered the distance in 4 minutes 15 seconds. Since Nurmi returned to his Scandinavian home, Wide has defeated the "Flying Finn". Last night the great Swedish runner failed by 20 seconds to lower the 3000 meter record, in a meet at Portland, Maine...
...game that has been arranged with the Braves.. The Harvard team will play the Braves in Boston on Monday, April 11, in the event that the game scheduled between the Red Sox and Braves for the previous Saturday is not cancelled because of bad weather. This will mark the Crimson's first appearance against a major league club since 1916, when Eddie Mahan succeeded in twirling his nine to a 2 to 0 triumph over the Red Sox, an outfit which later annexed the world's pennant. Coach Mitchell was in charge of that Harvard team of 11 years...
...result of an educational system conducted on this basis, with the school valued on account of the number of students that it can attract, or the advertising value of the stamp that its name can put on the graduate, is fatal to real scholarship. It misses the mark of culture altogether--so that one may say that the more scholars the country has the less scholarship it has to show. The essential fault of our national attitude toward education is our disposition to regard it as a commodity like any other, to be regulated by the law of supply...
Bernice Ridhardson. President Mark Embury Penney of Millikin University (Decatur, Ill.) had just read newspaper accounts of Miss Lanun's suicide and was thinking how terrible it would be if such a thing should happen in his institution, when news reached him that pretty Bernice Richardson, 20, one of his freshmen, whom he had just interviewed, had been found moaning on the floor of her room. She had drunk carbolic acid; died within an hour. In their interview President Penney had had to tell her that, since she had failed in French course, she could not register...
Pole Vault. Last week in Boston a young man paced away from a horizontal stick, set 13 ft. 7⅛ in. from the floor. Turning he rushed, planted a spiked pole, and released all available springs. Sabin Carr of Yale had set a new mark for indoor pole-vaulters to shoot at. He had come within ⅞ in. of Charles Hoff's supreme effort-which did not count because Mr. Hoff is a professional. Bluebird. In a Bluebird on the Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales, Capt. Malcolm Campbell broke the world's automobile record for a kilometre...