Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France. The only break in the continuity of the college championships came when the 1917 meet was cancelled because of more important things. In the eighth year stretch before the war two full college generations no less than six events averaged better than in the post-war period of similar length. One reason for this odd development traces to the presence of two of the world's most wonderful athletes in the pre-war era: John Paul Jones of Cornell and Ted Meredith of Penn. But that does not explain why the furlong sprint, the shot put and the pole...
...further in a similar line and arrive at a truth concerning contemporary literature of the journalistic breed: the tabloid idea is misrepresenting everything. In their desire for the graphic, the colorful, the papers are forgetting the approximation of the truth which is possible of their attainment. Heckled by moving pictures and novels the colleges are yet able to maintain their own self respect. But it is time for a period of temporary repose when the college world can for the nonce find that the world outside expects other than a circus parade every time that two undergraduates leave their college...
...runner, and his record of 47 4-5 around a handicap field at Travers Island subsequently proved, to my way, of thinking, that he was the second best quarter miler on record, in as much as Meredith's 47 2-5 at Cambridge in 1916 was run under about similar conditions...
...intended to cover the philanthropies expenses which are annually presented to the College, would solve many of the difficulties which have in past years rendered such philanthropy uncertain. After an investigation of the theoretical advantages of the plan and after having become to a certain degree conversant with similar methods employed at Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, this committee wishes to report in favor of the plan...
...engaged in carrying this out will be in such direct contact with the conditions and obstacles involved that they must to a considerable degree be allowed latitude in the procedure which they may employ. This committee has certain very definite recommendations, based on the experience of similar drives in past years and upon the experience of other colleges with a Budget, which are enumerated below...