Word: recording
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...high jump will, of course, be taken by W. B. Page, of the University of Pennsylvania, who holds the world's record of 6 feet 4 inches. The broad jump will probably be again won by Shearman, '89, last year's winner. The pole vault lies between Quinn, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Shearman, '89. Quinn is reported to have vaulted 10 feet 6 inches, The hammer and shot events are both exceedingly doubtful. If the rowing authorities would allow Woodruff, '89, to compete in the latter event, he would probably be the winner; otherwise, Hunt...
...Cross, an amateur runner of Oxford, England, has succeeded in breaking the half-mile record, made by Myers, the American, which has stood for six years. His time...
During the past year, several important changes have been made in the style of the bi-weeklies at Yale. Up to the present year, the Courant and the Record have been conducted on the same plan, and they have given themselves up to the lightest kind of literature. But Yale is unwilling to support two papers of this style, and to meet the demand of the University the '88 boards of editors have made radical changes in the respective fields of the Record and Courant...
...Record will continue to print light articles and amusing stories, but an artistic editor has been added. This change is intended to make the Record similar to the Harvard Lampoon. The Courant, on the other side, will give up publishing light articles and will confine itself to work of a historical character, thus becoming a medium between the Record and the Literary Magazine...
...began with work on the horizontal bar: C. A. Goeble, '88; G. L. Barney, '90; F. B. Myers, '90; and J. B. Henderson, '91, gave a very good exhibition. Henderson carried off the honors and was pronounced the winner of the event. Pennypacker, '88, now tried to break his record of 37 ft. 9 1-2 in, at putting the shot. He make some very good puts, only one out of the six being less than considerably over 37 feet. The best was 39 ft. 5 3-1 in. G. L. Barney, '90, and R. S. Bell, '91, alone showed...