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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...beautifully planned race, outdistancing all others by 100 yards. His time was 9 minutes, 22 2-5 seconds, which is 1 2-5 seconds better than the former record made by Hoffmire of Cornell in 1914, C. E. Johnson of Michigan, a remarkably versatile athlete, scored the largest number of points in the meet, winning the broad jump, placing second in the 100 yard dash, and tying for second in the running high jump. Dartmouth's best pole-vaulter, E. E. Myers, cleared the bar at 12 feet, 6 inches, three inches better than Newsletter of Pennsylvania...
...number of years of experimentation with the "laissez faire" system of athletics has proved that only a few men benefit from active participation. It seems impossible to change the habits of men except by some form of compulsion. Those who go out for athletics during their Freshman year will generally continue the practice throughout their undergraduate lives, but those who do not are rarely if ever induced to do so by any measure short of compulsion. Hence, if some form of exercise is enforced upon Freshmen it is probable that they will continue the habit thus formed during the rest...
...prize to go to the best of the choruses is the large silver loving cup donated five years ago by a number of graduates. The cup is now in the possession of Smith Halls, having been won by them two years in succession...
...preference will be given to out-of-door sports and competitive games. Also forms of exercise which can be kept up easily until late in life will be selected as well as those which are difficult to continue after leaving college, on account of the elaborate equipment or large number of contestants required. According to such plans, rowing, tennis, hockey, swimming, track events, and soccer will be encouraged, and in winter basketball, squash and squash racquets, boxing, fencing, wrestling and gymnasium work...
...merchant marine fleet of the United States will have grown to a considerable size within a short time, and efforts are being made throughout the nation to recruit a sufficient number of men to take care of the new program. Retention by the United States of all German ships seized after the declaration of war, will, according to information from Washington, make it certain that this country will be the second maritime power in the world, with Great Britain in first place and Japan in third. When the war began in 1914 American vessels carried only 9.7 per cent...