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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many changes. F. S. Sturgis '76 held this record in 1874 when he covered the distance in 2 minutes 52 1-2 seconds. In the next year, A. L. Lowell '77 cut 42 1-2 seconds from this time. Eleven years later, in 1896, W. H. Goodwin, Jr., '97 set up a new record of 1 minute 56 7-8 seconds. Although this is exceptionally fast time for the half mile run, yet this record was broken in less than a year by C. Hollister '97, who made the present record of 1 minute 54 2-5 seconds...
...clipped from the record in the mile-run since 1874. C. S. Bird '77 held this record, his time being 5 minutes 41 3-4 seconds. One year later, A. L. Lowell '77 lowered Bird's record to 5 minutes 2 1-2 seconds. In 1880 A. Thorndike '81 set up a record of 4 minutes 42 7-8 seconds, which was not broken for twelve years. G. Lowell '92 and R. Grant '97 reduced this time to 4 minutes 33 2-5 seconds and 4 minutes 26 1-5 seconds respectively. The record in the mile run is held...
...first record in this distance of 10 minutes 32 2-5 seconds. In the same year H. B. Clark '01 sliced thirty-two seconds from Mills' record. In 1904 A. King '03 ran the distance in 9 minutes 54 1-5 seconds, two years later M. H. Stone '07 set up a new record of 9 minutes 49 4-5 seconds, and in 1909 H. Jacques, Jr., '11 broke Stone's time by three seconds. The present record in the two mile run of 9 minutes 24 2-5 seconds was made by P. R. Withington...
Yale and Princeton in particular among the eastern colleges have considered a plan of an alumni day for preparatory school men. This plan is to set one Saturday during the spring when all undergraduates may go back to their respective schools, and be excused from college appointments on that day. The principals of many of the schools, including Andover and Exeter, have already expressed their approval of such a plan and promised the colleges their heartiest support in settling the question of the date...
...exciting race the 1919 four lost to Pomfret School at Pomfret by the narrow margin of a quarter length. The Freshman got the jump at the start and maintained their lead until the last 200 yards. When the schoolboys set a pace which the University yearlings could not keep up with. At the finish the Pomfret boat swept across the line in record time for that courses, 2 minutes 51 seconds...