Word: poling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pole vault record, which has been held by Princeton for over five years, was broken on June 24th by E. D. Goodshall, '87, of Lafayette, who cleared 10 feet 7 3 4 inches. - Yale News...
...negro provides the meals. The other rooms on the ground floor are all used as bed-rooms, two men occupying each. Upstairs there are a number of other sleeping apartments, which impress one as being rather too small for comfort. In front of the house there is a flag-pole, upon which waves the Columbia blue and white, and near this is a little summer house, where the men usually sit in the evening...
Toler of Princeton broke his own record in the pole vault last Saturday by a vault...
...would like to call the attention of the H. U. B. B. C. Management to the fact that, while Harvard holds the championship pennant, there is no flagpole from which it may proudly float during championship games. A good-sized pole could be erected - say behind the back stop on Holmes - at a comparatively small expense, and the presence of the prize for which they were fighting would urge on the players to greater efforts, and lend a greater interest to the game in the eyes of the spectators. Why could not this be done before the last championship game...
...flag pole near the Cambridge common was decorated with one of the transparencies from the freshman procession. Notwithstanding the effort of the police department, it remained there all day yesterday...