Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Following are forcersts of the five major sports making some attempt to indicate what the strength of next year's teams will...
...field Harvard's greatest strength will be in the high and broad jumps and the pole vault, while the weight events will show a weakness. J. B. Camp '15 should continue to excell in the pole vault, for he won the event against Yale and tied for first in the Intercollegiates. His chief aids will be M. L. Greeley, Jr., '15, G. G. Haydock '16, and L. G. Richards '16. The latter won a place in the Yale meet...
...field are Middlebrook, Falsey, and Hanes, with Vaughn as substitute, and Pumpelly as a dependable hitter in pinches. One of Yale's main sources of strength is that five of its players, Blossom, Falsey, Middlebrook, Cornish and Reilly have played in every one of the twenty-five games this season. The presence of these men give the team a steadiness which it would be hard to attain otherwise...
...exemption. As a matter of principle and conviction any deliberate formal change from the traditional type of privately supported university would be fought vigorously by many Harvard graduates in Massachusetts. With all the pecuniary limitations that this form of support involves it also carries with it elements of strength and independence for officials and for teachers such as are lacking where a university is dependent...
Capper was handicapped this year in having to face in his races the keenest competition of years, but nevertheless he always finished well up despite his comparative lack of experience. He has run better with each succeeding race, and with the added strength of another year's running should prove a well-nigh invincible...