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Carefully calculating the height of the crosspiece, Sabin Carr of Yale walked down the cinder path, turned, began trotting with his bamboo shaft poised like a phalanx spearman's, ran faster, vaulted boltlike into the air, hung suspended for an instant, writhed a little and fell. He cleared at 13 ft. 2 in., another record...
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...days it required only a big strong athlete with hands and wrists powerful enough to hold onto the wooden shaft, in order to get a good throw. Today a competitor weighing no less than 165 pounds has a chance for points in competition. Comparatively speaking the wooden handle was a great handicap...
...cameras. It seems that there is a custom in Cambridge when April with her showers sleety has allowed a short hiatus in the vernal equinox--and the custom is this, young and old tall and short, discreet and indefinite--all take each other's picture. Where proud the shaft of the monument on the common lifts its granite head, there I saw two girls with their boy friends taking each other's pictures with frank abandon. So mirror will be the richer soon by one enlarged, unretouched photograph of Mazie on a Monument--which rather irritates me, custom...
...hole was made a little larger and the next day the workers of the Expedition went to the shaft with two powerful mirrors. One was lowered to the floor of the tomb by light lines and the other was focused to throw the light of the sun through the hole. When the inside mirror had been jiggled to the right position it reflected the sun's light from the first mirror to the interior of the tomb and the watchers far above got their first clear impression of what they had found...