Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cindermen turn in par performances Yale should win the meet with about 50 points with the Crimson following close behind with 48 and Princeton with 47. Cornell, Penn, and Columbia should be in a close tangle for the other places and probably will finish in that order with Columbia brining up the year. Wins in either of the hurdles or the two-mile run would result in a Harvard victory...
Cordingley is probably as long off the tee as any collegian in America, outdriving his teammates by 50 yards on the average shot. Graves, kingpin of the New England college linksmen, is much shorter with woods but is a scrambler par excellence. Both he and Cordingley, however, are good iron players who rarely miss a green badly. They will both be three year men, sneaking into the number five and six jobs as Sophomores and working their way to the top as Juniors. A third returning letterman on this year's team is Junior Watty Dickerman, teaming with Don Elbel...
Graves was the individual star of the win on Friday with a sub-par 71, while Cordingley, in defeat, was the low Harvard man Saturday. A driving rain all Saturday morning had turned the course into a veritable swamp...
...match is scheduled for the Divinity Courts at three o'clock on Saturday and should provide some of the most interesting tennis of the year. With any sort of a break in opportunities to practice this spring, the netmen would rate on a par with Miami. As it is, Gardner Mulloy's Southern racqueteers are the favorites...
...Englander, William Sargent Ladd, Asahel I, at 44, went into the banking business with him and one employe, a cashier. First day Ladd & Bush took in $1,450 deposits, made nine loans on which they collected $221.17 interest (12%) in advance. The bank quoted U. S. Government bonds below par, handled currency only at a discount. At day's end its balance sheet listed $51,450 assets & liabilities. That year the first transcontinental railroad came through...