Word: pace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What seems to be the best solution, already applied in several colleges, is the publishing each year of a complete bibliography of the books used in the various courses given by the faculty. The changes from year to year, particularly in the sciences, would keep pace with the most recent pogrress in the different fields. Such a memorandum would give adherents of the much-touted and much-maligned "fifteen-minutes-a-day" system, a definite foundation to work upon, without which the whole idea collapses. It would serve as a powerful stimulant, and as each man could do as much...
...Virginia, the Crimson with Merrill, McCarthy, Newhall, and possibly Colt and Burke, should clean up here. The mile run, however, will be held first and it depends on the results whether Burke will try the half. If he does not and if Colt, after running the quarter, finds the pace too fast for him, either Gill or Snow is apt to get third place for the Institute...
...yard dash, jumped into the lead after about 50 yards and was never headed. J. H. Smith, in the half-mile run, stood off Cutcheon's spurt in the last lap successfully and won by about ten feet. In the two-mile run, Chapin set the pace all the way. At the beginning of the third lap, he increased his speed and puled away from the field, finishing at least 100 yards ahead of Sawin who came in second...
...five men reported for the first race, only one heat was run, but three heats were necessary to take care of the competition in the low hurdles. The distances were only half the regular length with five barriers in each race. Hauers had to go at his fastest pace to win from Thayer in the first race while Fietcher, a Freshman, crossed the line only a yard behind the second man. The first of the three trials in the low hurdle race was won by Fitts in the fastest time of the day, with Reycroft gaining a place...
...rowing all tend to show that the Pennsylvanians have developed two very powerful crews which are well suited to short distance rowing of the kind necessary in the mile and five-sixteenths race. In the University race against Yale the Red and Blue eight stroked by Mattison set a pace of 43 for the first half a minute and kept a high stroke throughout...