Word: meete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small concentrators dinners are an important part of the Quincy-Holmes affiliation. The dinners will be held simultaneously at Quincy and Holmes so that two departments can meet each time. In this way, every field of concentration should have three or four dinners a year, Mrs. Daisy Newman, Head Resident of Holmes Hall, said...
...despite the considerable quantities of beer consumed. Blodgett remarked. "They're just trying to psych us. The ones we see drinking and smoking aren't the ones we'll be running against, but they don't tell us that." The psychological warfare reached its peak the Sunday before the meet, when Oxford's Gilligan took his workout with two Yale men and ran them into the ground, and Harvard's Benjamin retaliated by doing eight consecutive quarter miles under 60.0, two of them faster than his previous personal best...
...Harvard-Yale workouts charges like "Harvard (or Yale) isn't training" gradually turned into even more bitter remarks such as "Of course we want to win, but we want the first places to be Yale (or Harvard) first places." This bickering continued right up to the day of the meet, but by the time the final relay was run off, the honor of America had overshadowed all other concerns...
...American opponents. The two-mile was originally planned as a three-mile test, but was shortened out of courtesy to the Americans. Even so, Benjamin, the best American two-miler, was 11 seconds behind Oxford's Gilligan. While the Americans religiously abstained from alcohol and tobacco before the big meet, the British, deception aside, showed no aversion to a few puffs or a small snort. Gilligan made a great show just before the start of the two-mile, parading up and down the track with a cigar clenched in his teeth...
Benjamin's second mile was three seconds faster than his first. Again, this race demonstrated his remarkable development in a short period of time. Until the Army meet on April 18, he had never run a mile as fast as his 4:26 second leg at Santry. And his time for the race was nearly 13 seconds faster than his best previous effort. It will be a long time before a runner with Benjamin's dogged determination and competitive pride wears a Crimson uniform...