Word: recording
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...winter meeting at Yale last week three records were broken, the running high jump by one inch, the pole vault by 1-6 inch, and the high kick by two inches; the last is only two inches less than the world's record...
...best American record for a twenty-four mile run was broken at Philadelphia recently. The distance was covered...
...Harvard record was made in the pole-vault by E. B. Leavitt, '90. Mr. Soren's record jump of 9 feet 6 inches was beaten by an inch, making the present record 9 feet 7 inches. Mr. Leavitt vaulted in good form and there is no reason why he may not better this jump by several inches. Of the other contestants. Wheelwright cleared the bar at 9 feet; Dickerman and Craig were not in condition to contest...
...Crew-Book is out at last - and a very attractive little volume it is. It is very prettily gotten up in a crimson cover, with "Rah, 'Rah, 'Rah, 'Rah, '89" on the outside. The book is a complete record of the life of the crew from its organization in October, 1885, up to its final victory over the Yale and Columbia freshmen at New London last summer. It is brightly and amusingly written from beginning to end. Little incidents are told of each man on the crew, and each one is given his own peculiar nick-name. The author gives...
...Yale News comments on the smallness of the record made in the pole-vault contest last Saturday...