Word: tape
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mile relay race from Yale, U. of P. Georgetown and Carlisle. The contest was very close, but Fish won the first relay in 51 2-5s. and Vincent won the second in 50 1-5s. Butler, however, weakened considerably and fell just before reaching the tape. Hollister then managed to touch him and though Fisher, Yale's crack quarter-miler had gained a lead of seven yards, the Harvard runner overhauled him and won by five yards. The time for the relay was 49 4-5s., but allowing for the delay Hollister's time was considerably faster...
...precautions taken by the Class Day Committee concerning the sale of tickets to the exercises on Class Day, are reasonable and just. It may seem to some men that there is a needless amount of red tape in the disposal of tickets. Yet every bit of this seemingly needless form is absolutely necessary if the sale of these tickets is to be conducted with fairness, and Class Day is to be made a success. In spite of the precautions which former committees have taken in keeping track of the tickets that are given out, a great deal of trouble...
Kilpatrick got two yards to the good on the first brush, but Hollister had him caught in half a dozen strides, and for 50 yards or so the two swept toward the tape together. Gradually Hollister forged ahead, gaining inch by inch, and won in splendid form, a yard and a half ahead of his competitor...
...many students the red tape in the management of some few of the courses here seems wholly unnecessary and is in some cases decidedly annoying. To ask students to present their work in a certain specified form is well enough, but to insist upon it, even to ask all the students of a course to buy a pamphlet of instructions as to how to behave in a course is little short of absurd. In History 13, for example, it is carried so far that each student is required to pay a small fee to meet the expense of the elaborate...
...hundred yards run Bordman '94 allowed a man to pass him on the first lap and was not quite good enough to win back the advantage that he lost, though it took several minutes for the judges to decide as to which man breasted the tape first...