Word: rods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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LOST. - A steel rod umbrella; finder please leave address at Leavitt & Peirce...
Stoughton 11.LOST. - A steel rod umbrella. Please return to Leavitt & Peirce...
Stoughton 11.LOST. - A steel rod umbrella. Please return to Leavitt & Peirce...
...games Saturday afternoon did unusually well, first and second prizes in every event except the pole vault being won by H. A. A. men. As a whole, the meeting was very successful. Two Technology records were broken,- the running high jump by C. D. Heywood, who cleared the rod at the height of 5 feet 10 1-2 inches, (best previous Technology record, 5 feet 6 inches), and the pole vault by J. Crane, Jr., -9 feet 9 5-8 inches...
...last few days the crew have been rowing with the seats all connected by a wooden rod. This is only a temporary scheme to teach the new men the proper idea of the recover. This was also tried for a short time on the '84 crew before they went on the water and it was given up as useless. The sophomore crew in 1883 rowed in the class races with a similar arrangement, but found it very unsatisfactory-they came in third. The plan is only intended to be temporary of course but it is rather interesting to watch...