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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale likewise boasts several outstanding athletes in the person of Avery and Taylor. The former, although incapacitated by a leg injury from taking part in the pole vault, his best event, is nevertheless good for a 130 foot throw in the discus. Taylor attains a 130 footmark in the hammer throw consistently...
...announcement that Harvard is to play Oregon University in a golf match in which the two teams will be playing three thousand miles apart makes the average person stop a minute and wonder where the desire for novelty in America will stop. There have been previous invasions of college sports by this seemingly dominant American characteristic but-never before has it gone to such an extreme...
...golf this may be a minor consideration but for a person who enjoys the competitive element in any sport there is small inducement to make a trip to Belmont Spring to watch the Harvard team play against...
Knowing about Skippy is, to people who do know about him, like belonging to a special, almost secret society in which there are only two members, Skippy and the person who knows about him. Of course, each member realizes there are lots of other members, because the comic-strip Skippy lives in and is syndicated in 85 daily and 40 Sunday newspapers throughout the U. S. But being a Skippy person is different from liking Mutt and Jeff or the Gumps. Skippy goes it alone, for one thing, although he is much younger than most comic-strip characters. Furthermore, there...
...name, a new figure, a new power, arrived last week in Chicago. All were bound up in the person of Homer Guck (pronounced "Guke"). Upon the resignation of Merrill Church Meigs as publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, William Randolph Hearst appointed Mr. Guck to the post...