Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln Road by a long
length and a half. The weather was fine, the track was fast, and when
Silky Sullivan, the California clown, clumped home eighth, he had no
excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern
horselaugh.
...Princeton's Lake Carnegie, Yale's powerful eight pulled up to the finish of the 1¾-mile course half a length ahead of Cornell, 1¼ lengths in front of Princeton, was clocked in a lake record 8:35.8. ¶ In the eighth race at Massachusetts' Raynham dog track, the greyhounds were faster than the $2 hunch players hoped for. They caught the mechanical bunny, and quit racing to chew on the fur-covered teaser. Track officials took an even worse licking: they had to return $18,345 in bets...
Yale proved that its heavyweight varsity is as good as has been claimed when it won the EARC sprints at Princeton Saturday in record breaking time. The Crimson, a close second most of the race, finished third in the 2000 meter race after stroke Bob Lawrence was thrown from the boat eight strokes from the finish line...
...Princeton the heavyweight's will have a considerably tougher time than the 150's. It is hard to estimate the strength of Yale based on this season's performance. Under undeniably faster conditions the Elis beat Princeton last Saturday and broke the course record set by the Crimson the week before. Moreover, they have four veterans from last year's crew, including three from the 1956 Olympic crew...
John E. McNees '60 of Eliot House and Kansas City, Kansas, has been awarded the 1958 Dana Reed Prize for distinguished undergraduate writing, for his CRIMSON feature on "The Quest at Princeton for the Cocktail Soul," an essay on Bicker...