Word: recording
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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From Worcester High the school which won the championship, J. T. Roche is the only point winner who is coming to Harvard next year. At the interscholastic meeting he equalled the record of 4 4/5 seconds in the 40 yards dash, and gives promise of being an excellent sprinter...
...Holt of the Roxbury Latin School, who made the interscholastic record of 5 feet 8 inches in the high jump will enter Harvard next fall. He has won prizes in several other meetings. J. D. Dole who won second place in the same event, with a jump of 5 feet 7 inches is coming from the same school...
Three men will enter from the English High School next year: M. C. O'Brien, who broke the shot record with a put of 36 feet 8 inches, and has won prizes in many other meetings; J. J. Purtell, who won second place in the 600-yard run, and H. N. Dunbar who was third in the 40-yard dash...
...machine which promises to be of much practical benefit to Harvard rowing has recently been invented by Professor Hollis of the Engineering department. The machine registers autographically the amount of energy expended by an oarsman in the various parts of the stroke. The autographic reproduction on paper of the record of a stroke is by clearly defined lines obtained by electricity...
...invention proves as useful as it seems reasonable to hope that it will be, it will perhaps completely revolutionize rowing methods. The testing machine will show by its automatic record what the individual faults of each member of a crew are. By doing this it will give inestimable help to the coaches. Under the present method the coaches have nothing but the eye to guide them in determining upon the strength or weakness of a stroke; the new invention, however, should give them valuable scientific information which would be of inestimable value in forming the stroke for a crew...