Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan prohibited undergraduates from operating automobiles about the campus, he was twitted for being unreasonably paternalistic. Whereupon, he issued a proper reply to the twitters...
...next year he went into business for himself. It took him three years to pay off the debts that he incurred in that first enterprise. "I had good luck-I failed when I was young." The boom in Michigan lumber came and went. He was still poor. He went to the Coast. He was 50 before he had enough money to buy a sawmill. Transportation was bad and expensive. He bought the Newsboy, a 300-ton ship, to take his lumber to ports along the Pacific Coast...
...Henrich '28, G. A. Tupper '30, and Mason are slated to face the Michigan hurdlers. The Crimson weight men will be David Guarnaccia '29 and C. A. Pratt '28. The pole vault promises to be a close fight between F. B. Clark '28, B. G. Burbank '28, and Prout, Michigan's veteran. F. T. Burgess '30, Harvard's only entry in the high jump, will have to outdo Waldo, who has cleared 5 feet, 10 5-8 inches to take second in the recent Big Ten meet...
With greater strength than its opponent in the mile and two-mile runs, the half-mile, pole vault, and shot put, the University track team is favored to win its meet with Michigan tonight on the Wolverines' boards. Twenty members of the squad, with Manager B. T. Thompson '28, Coach E. L. Farrell, and Athletic Director W. J. Bingham '16 entrained for Ann Arbor yesterday afternoon to engage in the first dual track encounter of the two institutions...
...Mason '30 and A. E. French '29, the University entries in the 60-yard dash, will face Michigan's captain, George Hester, who broke the tape in this event in the Big Ten Conference games last year. In the quarter mile V. L. Hennessy '30 and F. E. Cummings '30 will be matched against Munger, who has bettered 50 seconds for this distance. In the longer runs, Harvard, as has been the case in all of its meets during the past few years, will be the heavy favorite. Captain A. H. O'Neil '28 and R. P. Porter...