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...Kelton was a pilot attached to the 185th Squadron of the American Expeditionary Forces. He will fly in the 100-mile cross-country race which is one of the six events on the schedule. L. T. Lanman '20 will also be on the team, flying in the take-off and landing event. The third member of the team chosen yesterday was R. Blinn Varnum '21, who will enter the manoeuvre and acrobatic events. He was formerly a pilot in the 166th Squadron, A. E. F. The remaining fliers on the team will be chosen tomorrow...
...second athletic carnival staged in the State Armory by the 10th Infantry of the New York State guard. D. F. O'Connell '21 fought to a spectacular finish in his eight-lap race around the 176-yard track, cutting down Dickinson's lead of 20 yards at the take-off and winning by three yards. The Crimson runners covered the distance in 8 minutes and 24 seconds...
...took the baton. For the first lap Goodwin increased his lead to 20 yards, but John of the Ithaca team speeded up in the second and third laps and cut the lead to five yards. A spurt in the final lap brought him abreast of Goodwin at the take-off line...
Hats off to Lampy. Our worthy colleague has performed the impossible; it has made even more popular than usual that feature of every properly appointed household--the Cosmopolitan. From the delicate and tactful "take-off" on the late lamented Ella Wheeler Wilcox to the masterpiece of cartoonist art entitled "Woodruina" Lampy scores a decisive victory in the realm of humor. Of all forms of wit burlesque is perhaps the hardest to carry off. Nine times out of ten it falls flat simply because it is overdone. But the editors of the Lampoon knew when to stop, and therein lies their...
From statistics of Harvard track records taken by the CRIMSON, it appears that the physical condition of the average man is better today than forty years ago. Of course running shoes, board and cinder tracks, take-off boards for the broad-jump, poles for the pole-vault, and the system of coaching have all been improved and necessarily have a bearing upon these records. Yet, by merely glancing at them, it may be seen that even grammar school boys of today could compete with the University record holders of 1875. Moreover, these records run on such a poor average that...