Word: tapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best Eli to line up with Fletcher and Clark. the most promising Crimson entries in the 120-yard high hurdles. Fletcher won the event against Andover but Durant with the reputation of being the best yearling fence taker at New Haven in years will probably break the tape. The story in the low hurdle race will be much the same except that Hull will be added to the lists of Crimson entries, and should make Durant extend himself...
...fact that Coach Bingham did not wish to give his high hurdles a too strenuous workout, there was no race in this event. However, the 220-yard low hurdle race was run off. In the final heat, Gordon after a perfect start, led Reycroft all the way to the tape, winning by inches. Reycroft, although unable to catch Gordon, nipped Palmer by a narrow margin. The high hurdle race will be run off next Wednesday
...Fitts in the fastest time of the day, with Reycroft gaining a place in the finals by crossing the line second. In the second heat Hauers got a bad start and was unable to catch Fletcher, while in the last preliminary Thayer led Hull at the tape. Hauers who could not win the prize due to the fact that no man is allowed to take more than one of the ten bronze trophies offered for competition this year, did not compete in the finals and Fitts beat Thayer by three yards with Fletcher again taking third place a yard behind...
...large number of misunderstandings arise every year over the College regulations. Sooner or later most of us go to University 4 and have a consultation with one of the Deans during which many of our ideas appear false, and the office seems tied up with useless red tape. Unfortunately, however, the College office has to have a certain number of regulations to settle the various questions which constantly come up for settlement; the main difficulty is that comparatively few undergraduates even attempt to understand them...
...with --21.8 ends it, Classical writers placed very high with three among the first fifteen. But were the zeros of "un-classicized critics discounted they would place still higher; Aeschylus, for example, now nineteenth would then stand fourth. The cases of tied popularity are enlightening. Dr. Johnson broke the tape with Krazy Kat; St. Augustine, Lenin, and Douglas Fairbanks were triple-tied: Flo Ziegfeld and Frederic the Great matched; and Geraldine Farrar and Henry Ford mated...