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Financed by the Friends of Harvard Track, the Harvard Bubble will boast a synthetic Tartan running surface designed to lessen the muscle strain most indoor runners experience from long periods of running on conventional board surfaces...
...Tartan track will enable us to do much more work at practice," McCurdy said, "and while times may be slower at first, the lightened impact on runners' legs and feet will allow my men to carry on the type of practice they want...
Even weirder, of course, was their uniform-an affront to starched red coat propriety from the tops of their bearskin hats to the tips of their famous diamond-patterned Argyll stockings. In fact, these fineries, plus the tartan kilt, so effectively kept Englishmen from signing on with the regiment that Britain's adjutant-general at one point ordered it to adopt a uniform less "objectionable to the natives of South Britain...
...simple comparison of last Saturday's times with Harvard performances is misleading because Princeton ran on Penn's "Tartan" track, a composition of cork and rubber which is faster than Harvard's cinder surface...
...business of producing, among other things, such pub parts as oak bar tops and brass rails. If the home market had gone sour, they wondered, why not look abroad, where English-style pubs seem increasingly popular. After all, says Costick, in some U.S. pseudo-pubs, "they even have a tartan in the act, because they are not sure what is England and what is Scotland...