Word: recording
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Eight events in all were contested and one New England record was broken, that of the potato race which E. H. Clark '96, won in 34 seconds. W. E. Putnam, Jr., '96, in the springboard leap, equalled the Harvard record of 8 ft. 6 in. W. W. Hoyt '98 made 10 ft. 4 1/2 in. in the pole vault and tried to break his record made at Worcester, but failed. Captain Wheelwright of last year's Mott Haven team was a contestant in this event...
...enough to get back to Cambridge. For this old John Harvard thanks you from the bottom of his grateful heart. But you have something more to do; a harder battle to fight, a nobler victory to win, and I would say to every man upon your team: Your splendid record has laid upon your sturdy shoulders another and a weightier duty. If you are to do a real and lasting service for the cause of athletics, and for your Alma Mater, you must show when you go out from her halls that there are moral and intellectual qualities which your...
...jump and shot are open invitation events and the Harvard men will thus have a chance to try conclusions with some of the better known of the athletes in this vicinity. The pole vault will give the college its first opportunity to see Hoyt who recently broke the Harvard record at the Worcester meeting...
...especially favorable. The Boston Transcript in commenting editorially upon his appointment, says: "Everything seems to indicate that the new librarian has books in his blood, so to speak, and also the executive ability which is needed by the head of a great library like ours. Mr. Putnam's record in connection with the Minneapolis library points to success in Boston...
...four Harvard men won prizes. W. E. Putnam, Jr., '96 (3 in.) won the high jump with an actual jump of 5 ft., 10 1/2 in., beating Stingel; W. W. Hoyt '98 (scratch) won the pole vault, clearing 10 ft. 7 1/2 in., two inches more than the Harvard record; A. M. Eaton, Jr., '97 (7 ft.) was first in the 40 yards dash, with C. S. Fuller '96, second; time 4 3/5 sec. E. H. Clark '96 (3 ft.), F. H. Bigelow '98 (scratch) and E. Alden '97 (7 ft.), obtained places in trial heats of the 40 yards...