Word: recorder
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Board of Overseers two days later. Because of the remarkable opportunities offered by the splendid equipment of the new school the choice was awaited with great interest. A man of great administrative ability was needed, who had a thorough training in medicine. Dr. Christian had already established an excellent record of work in the Boston hospitals. He is an unusually young man for the position of head of the Medical School. Born in Lynchburg, Va., in 1876, he entered Randolph Macon at the age of fifteen, being graduated in 1895 with the degrees of A.B. and A.M. For five years...
...report on the clinical record of football injuries received by members of the University squad during the past four years, which is published this morning, is the first actual proof of any consequence we have had that the change in the football rules has led to a diminution in the number and extent of injuries. The spectator soon realized that he found more entertainment in witnessing a good exhibition of the open game with wide runs, passes and frequent kicks than in watching four hundred and fifty pounds or more of concentrated power forcing their way through one small hole...
...case of football and baseball, the two major sports which have caused the trouble. The greatest number of games a University football team has ever played was thirteen in 1893 and in the spring of the following year the baseball schedule was the longest on record, containing thirty-three games. As these figures have gradually decreased the schedules of the minor sports have increased, until the climax was reached last year when there were thirteen games on the hockey schedule and sixteen for the basketball team...
...interest among graduates in this matter has naturally been keen and widespread. The alumni in every state in the land have had it on their minds during these months and the possible men have been gone over thoroughly. President Eliot has gone on record as favoring a young and vigorous man who can shoulder the continuous and heavy work which the office involves. When President Eliot was inaugurated in 1869 he was only 35 years old and the Corporation has shown its fearlessness of comparative youth recently in appointing a new dean for the Medical School who is 32. Many...
...high-average cup has been awarded to C. L. Hauthaway '10 with an average of 84.3 per cent. B. M. Higginson '10 was second with an average of 82.2 per cent. A record of every shot fired during the season has been kept and the cups have been awarded on the basis of the highest average attained in both team-matches and practice...