Word: tapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University, with a total of 195 points, took eighth place in the thirteenth annual intercollegiate cross-country run on the new Van Cortlandt Park course, in New York City yesterday afternoon. Cornell, placing six men out of the first ten to cross the tape, won the harrier classic, for the ninth time, registering a low record of 18 points, while her nearest competitor, Princeton, ran up a score of 87. Syracuse was third with 108, while Yale was fourth in the team standing, with 111 points against her. R. E. Brown of Cornell won individual honors finishing in 32 minutes...
About the ticker only the three or four lucky ones can see the tape. The rest have to stand on tie-toe and peer over the shoulders of the man in front. They don't care. Some one will always read the results aloud, just as a woman will read aloud the cut-ins at the movies. The one who is doing the reading usually throws in little advance predictions of his own when the news is slow in coming, with the result that those in the back get the impression that the team has at least a "varied attack...
...Ithacans have so far shown themselves to be as strong as in former years. At the Syracuse meet last Saturday, Cornell brought in five men before one of their opponents finished, the first four crossing the tape in a dead heat, breaking the time record for the course...
...quarter-mile, the former winning the event and the latter coming up from the rear for second place. The 65-yard high hurdles proved the closest race. C. R. Hauers '23, who won the hurdle event in last year's meet with Yale, running at scratch, broke the tape. W. B. Thomas '25 and J. P. Monks '24, with small handicaps, finished second and third respectively almost alongside of Hauers...
...very useful at times, and the theory of anonymous revelation might very will spread farther than the capitals of nations. Indeed, some such thing would not be far amiss, in our own Yard. "Mirrors of U-4", for example, written, by some unknown undergraduate hopelessly enmeshed in official red tape, under the non de plume of "A Gentleman With a Grudge." The time is surely fitting, now that the old order of things in University Hall has passed away, and we stand in ignorance of the "age that is waiting before." A few well-chosen secrets discreetly disseminated...