Word: power
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Gormer-Williams, who will represent the light-blue, in the Yale-Cambridge games, stands 5 ft. 11 in and weighs 175 pounds in running costume. He is one of the largest of the visiting team, but gets into his running slowly and although he has power, his style is heavy and clumsy...
...companion in the 100 yards, E. H. Wilding, is tall but slight in build. His style is more graceful than Gormer Williams's, but he has not much power, and does not develop any more speed. It is probable that the Yale pair opposed to these two will be Byers and Burnett. In condition, both are good for 10 1-5 seconds, while neither of the Cambridge representatives at their best are better than 10 2-5 seconds. Byers last spring in the Intercollegiates was good enough to lead Crum at eighty yards, and he is now running stronger...
...athletic team, said: "I have nothing to say until the official letter is received. When that comes Harvard will be consulted at once, and final action will be taken as soon as possible. No university meeting will be necessary, as the officers of the Yale Athletic Association have full power to act independently under advice of the Graduate Advisory Committee. Yale will be glad to meet the English universities in America. It will be hardly probable that Yale and Harvard will agree to a three-mile run. The official letter may have fuller particulars, but by 'weight-putting' only sixteen...
62tTHE programme of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is a splenid monument to the abilities of that enterprising person and his power of attracting the best performers to exhibit before the best audiences. The first five events illustrate exciting scenes on the great American prairie before the railroads had been projected west. In the fifth event a prairie emigrant train crossing the plains is attacked by a wild band of Indians who are gallantly repulsed by Buffalo Bill and a few scouts. The whole scene is thrillingly realistic in the smoke and broil of battle which it represents. Next...
Seniors are urged to assist the committee in a judicious distribution of the tickets, to follow the requirements carefully, and to do everything in their power to keep all but the friends of the students away from the exercises...