Word: recording
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the University of Pennsylvania Athletic Association, on Saturday, George Buntin broke the intercollegiate record of Coxe of Yale in the hammer throwing by 2 ft. 3 3-4 in., making a throw...
Crom. of Oxford, England, recently ran 600 yards in 1 minute 12 4-5 seconds, beating the amateur English record...
...meeting of yesterday, while only changing one Harvard record, was, when the conditions under which it took place are considered, a very successful one. The meeting was an informal affair, managed entirely by the officers of the association, but it has an important bearing on the New York games. The first event was the 120 yards hurdle race. Bell, '91, gave Noble, '88, 10 yards handicap but did not succeed in overhauling him, though he covered the distance in 17 4-5s. Noble's time was not taken. The 100-yards men were now called, Lund, '88; Bodley...
...annual Yale spring games were held Tuesday afternoon at New Haven. The weather was threatening and the track was in a very poor condition from the effects of rain. But in spite of this two records were broken. Following are the winners: 100-yards dash, Sherrill, '89, 10 1-4s.; one-mile run, Harmar, '90, 4m. 32 2-5s. (this breaks the intercollegiate record of 4m. 36 4-5s.; 440 yards run, Sherrill, 53s.; 220 yards hurdle, Sweeney, '89. 28 3-5s., breaking Yale record of 29 1-2s.; one mile walk, Platt...
...made, the effects are very lasting, and this is as true of right influences as of wrong ones. Students are too apt to regard academic life as something different from life after graduation-they think that when they leave college they will start on a new career-but the record once made will affect a man throughout his after life. Pessimism, aestheticism dilettanteism, are all modes of looking at life peculiar to the college world...