Word: record
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Scheuber '05, in the 40-yards dash, scratch, furnished the surprise of the evening by defeating A. F. Duffey, Georgetown, the holder of the world's record at the distance. Both the 40-yards, novice and handicap, were won by G. F. Henneberry '02, who had no trouble in getting first in either event...
...Plaw of the University of California, who holds the intercollegiate record of 165 feet, 9 inches in throwing the sixteen-pound hammer, has recently made a practice throw of 187 feet, 4 inches, which surpasses Flanagan's world's record by nearly 16 feet. Plaw will come East with the California track team this spring...
Several tables are included in the report, which show the number of students who used the libraries during the year. As no record can be kept of the open shelves in the reading rooms, all reference to them is excluded from the following figures: The recorded use of the 928 reserved volumes in the Harvard Hall reading room in the course of the year amounted to 28,496 The number of over-night loans was 13,566. At Gore Hall, books lent numbered 63,673, and those used in the building (recorded use only) numbered...
Dean Briggs's report on "The College" contains a thorough statement, illustrated by tabulated figures, of the enrolment of the past year, the admission examination records and the number of men transferred to higher classes, or dropped to lower classes or from College. Concerning the sixty Freshmen dropped from the class at the end of last year, the Dean says: "Inquiry into the origin and record" of these men "yields no clear explanation of their failure; it shows, however, that, if public schools contributed to the Freshman class their usual proportion of between thirty and forty per cent., they succeeded...
...Tyng '04, on Friday afternoon, in the presence of several witnesses, made an unofficial strength test which registered 2,226.4. This is considerably better than both the Harvard record of 1,869.5, made last year by C. G. Hall 1L., and the intercollegiate record of 1,940.9, made by R. W. Allis of the University of Minnesota. The individual tests registered as follows: lungs, 50; legs, 780; back, 410; right forearm, 95; left forearm, 85; chest and upper arms, 806.4; total...