Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continuity of the college championships came when the 1917 meet was cancelled because of more important things. In the eighth year stretch before the war two full college generations no less than six events averaged better than in the post-war period of similar length. One reason for this odd development traces to the presence of two of the world's most wonderful athletes in the pre-war era: John Paul Jones of Cornell and Ted Meredith of Penn. But that does not explain why the furlong sprint, the shot put and the pole vault averages for the post...
...dashes, Yale should score ten points to the Crimson's eight, with Miller counted upon to annex the 100-yard dash and take second to Norton in the furlong. Kane and Paulsen will fight it out in the quarter, with Clark of Yale conceded the odd point. FIGURES AND FANCY Harvard Yale Track Events 100-Yard 5 4 220-Yard 8 6 440-Yard 3 6 Half Mile 6 2 Mile 9 0 Two Mile 8 1 High Hurdles 8 6 Low Hurdles 8 6 Field Events Shot Put 6 3 Discus 6 5 Javelin 4 5 Hammer...
...CRIMSON editors felt "that in the past, discussion of the merits and defects of college courses had been altogether too meagre to be of any value either to instructors or prospective students." The CRIMSON did not pretend to present a categorical statement of the worth of the 40 odd courses it criticized, but rather the personal opinions of a fairly representative group of undergraduates. By soliciting the opinions of a much wider group, the CRIMSON hopes that its second guide will be of greater significance...
...while the Van Sweringens were trying and failing to effect their Nickel Plate System as a competitor in the East to the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the B. & O., the country has been watching this man. He was known to control the Delaware & Hudson with its 30-odd affiliated companies in the East. In the Middle West he was chairman of the Kansas City Southern, boss of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (the "Katy") and of the St. Louis Southwestern (the "Cotton Belt"). Of the latter road Edwin Gould was nominally chairman, the last of the Goulds to hold...
...return postcard system will be employed in determining the vote of the more than 700 odd members of the Faculty. Cards will be mailed to them the early part of next week and should be returned to the CRIMSON not later than Saturday evening, May 8. No names will be published in connection with the faculty vote, and all ballots will be destroyed after the total result is recorded...