Word: recording
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there has been an alarming decrease. Of all the classes now in college, ninety-seven has made the feeblest initial effort to produce a nine. Of course the matter rests entirely with the class. There is no compulsion in the matter. If they are willing to have their record the poorest in many years, if they wish to incur the reputation of being spiritless, they have full power. And yet the rest of the University cannot look on with indifference while they take such a course. Harvard's prospects in baseball have not been so gloomy for years as they...
...classes then in college gave athletic exhibitions by which they netted a large sum of money. This they used to buy the case in which are the trophy baseballs and to buy photographs of the teams. On the walls they placed tablets on which were to be put the records made from time to time in track athletics. The custom of having the photograph of each team placed in the room, together with a record of what it had done, was maintained for several years. Later the custom died out. Moreover, the flags which adorn the room have been neglected...
General references: Congressional Record and Professor Taussig in Quarterly Journal of Economics...
...notable performances at the B. A. A. games Saturday night were those of M. F. Sweeney, X. A. C., in the high jump, and Bernard Doherty, D. A. C., in the three standing jumps. Sweeney broke his own in-door record by clearing 6 ft. 3 3-8 in., and Doherty established a new world's record in his event...
Although nothing in the way of record breaking was done by the Harvard men, the H. A. A. scored many more points than any other organization. The fact that in the track events only one scratch man secured a place, would indicate that the handicaps given were almost too liberal...