Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the Freshmen were handicapped by the absence of the four quarter-milers who ran in the Penn Relays, and of J. C. McGlone, who played in the baseball game, they took all the points in the quarter, half, and mile runs. Watters, who won the last two of these events, starred for the first-year athletes. Other men who performed especially well for the Crimson were P. F. A. Altmann, M. A. Cheek Jr., L. O. Combs, and Donald Spencer. The yearlings showed a marked weakness in the dashes, the hurdles, and the hammer throw...
Among the additions to the entries as previously announced is that of N. S. Howe, the Freshman football captain last fall. Howe ran in the 100-yard and 220-yard dashes while at St. Paul's and will strengthen the Crimson in those events. The other additions to the entries are: R. J. Learson, 440-yard man; O. A. Schleikjer, 880-yard man; Edmund Burke, hammer throw; E. O. Sessions, pole vault...
...nine the next morning balloting began. Excitement ran high. The 1.800 delegates in their eagerness to vote broke through the rope that held them back. Policemen and firemen were summoned to restore order. At eight in the evening the polls closed. At eleven the count was not completed and the convention adjourned till the following day at ten a.m. The tellers were closeted counting the ballots till the early hours of the morning. Gradually news leaked out that Mrs. Cook was ahead...
When the official count was announced it ran: Mrs. Cook, 940; Mrs. Hanger, 779. All on Mrs. Cook's ticket were elected except the nominee for Chaplain General. Mrs. Thomas A. Edison of New Jersey carried that office, 871-746, although she was not able to be present at the congress. Following the announcement of her election, Mrs. Cook made her first speech as President General. She came forward " in a becoming costume of blue moire silk and georgette crepe with an ankle length skirt. Her hat was of blue satin with a bandeau of white roses." Said...
...complete law library to be obtained for their use". "A complete law library" must have been a far simpler matter a century ago than in these times, but the Corporation evidently sensed the difficulty which has attended the establishment of the library, when its vote establishing the school ran: "The students shall have access to . . . a complete law library to be obtained for their use as soon as means for that purpose may be found...