Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...total of 19 1-2 of the 48 1-2 points scored against Yale last spring and all look to be sure point-winners in the coming season. Nine point-winners were lost by graduation, these being Foster in the sprints, Kelley and Simons in the quarter-mile. Jaques, Whitman, Everett and Ryan in the distance events, Lewis in the hurdles and Dennis in the high jump. These men won a total of 29 points in the Yale meet last spring, but even with these men out of the running Harvard seems to have somewhat better material than does Yale...
...quarter-mile Harvard will greatly miss the services of H. W. Kelley '11, who was always a consistent performer. His place will be well filled by W. A. Barron, Jr., '14, however, who although comparatively new to track work has been showing up especially well at the quarter-mile distance. K. Reynolds '14, and F. J. O'Brien '14, may possibly show up strong in this event, although O'Brien may be used in the sprints and should show up well this spring. R. G. Huling '13 is one of the fastest quarter-milers in College. Other possibilities...
...waste any good material in useless competition, but will place his men in those events which will gain for Harvard the greatest possible number of points from the distance runs. Harvard seems to have a decided advantage over Yale in all of the longer runs, although in the quarter-mile Yale has some strong runners...
...Will you listen now to a few facts,--too few to draw general conclusions from, yet still strangely interesting in themselves. Story-tellers and playwrights are not expected to be scholars, are they? Yet Owen Wister, '82, was in the first quarter of his class. Henry M. Rideout, '99, author of "The Siamese Cat", "Beached Keels", and other justly admired tales, took his bachelor's degree magna cum laude. Of the three most successful and most distinguished Harvard playwrights, Knoblauch, of '96, although he won no scholastic distinction, was well known to all who knew him as a deep...
...team was given a three-quarter hour's practice in the Stadium yesterday morning, consisting of sending down the forwards against the defences, first by twos and then by fours. No scrimmage was held...