Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only five men on the entire squad have a perfect average in the field. These are Duchin, who played in only one game; Burns, who has accepted 14 chances without a misplay; Cutts and Puffer, pitchers who have toiled in three games each; and Ellison, veteran right fielder, who before his removal to make room for the speedier Burns, registered 15 put-outs in the outer gardens...
Interest in shot putting among collegians is traceable, I believe, to the desire for football men to take up weight events for off-season training. It is natural that they should turn to weights and yet it is a difficult task for the big man to perfect timing and rhythm, which are all-important to the shot putter. The increase in public interest in the event is not difficult to explain. This week's competitors will toss the sixteen-pound ball from a spot within the view of thousands in the Stadium. It will require only a glance to show...
Hurdling has changed considerably since the first Intercollegiate meet in 1876, at which time there was practically no technique and there was little time spent to perfect the form: the record then being 18 1-4 seconds. H. Mapes of Columbia was the first college athlete to negotiate the distance in better than 17 seconds, his performance in 1889 being 16 4-5 seconds. L. H. Williams of Yale in 1891 was the first college athlete to do better than 16 seconds in the Intercollegiate Meet, doing that year 15 4-5 seconds. In 1895 Steve Chase of Dartmouth...
...perfect start. Johnson on Bubbling Over was out ahead from the eleventh post position; he wouldn't be able to stay there long. Canter and Display, the horses that had been giving the starter such trouble, were running on each side of Pompey. Recollection swerved almost to the outside rail but he was behind the field and there was no interference. They broke at the turn; the thud of their racing-plates sounded incredibly loud, a prolonged piratical drum-roll, in the silence that replaced the crowd's first roar...
...need, if not to her sons? Shall we be outdone in loyalty to Harvard, and in giving to Harvard; by those on whom she has less claim, those whom she has not fostered? Hardly so. The idea of the Harvard Fund is founded upon the strong rock of perfect logic, and it will make its own appeal to all loyal Harvard men." William W. Fisher, '04. Vice-President, Southwestern Division, Associated Harvard Clubs Dallas...