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...broad-jumping pit, a dusky form plunked into the sawdust, was lifted out, groaning. De Hart Hubbard, Michigan Negro, had won for America, had made his winning jump despite the excruciating pain of a pulled tendon. Ned Gourdin, Harvard Negro, leaped to second place...
...meet only by a miracle such as that performed by Coach Bingham's team two years ago in defeating Yale by 70 13-15 points to 64 2-15, when all the so-called track experts had predicted an easy Yale victory. Now that Allen is out with a tendon pulled the last day of practice, the Harvard advocates are forced to deduct from their total the eight points which they had hoped he would win in the 440 and 220-yards dashes today, and the result is fatal to their chances of victory...
...second casualty was that of David Neiman '24, a broad jumper, who pulled a tendon in the broad jump it, shortly after Allen had fallen on the track. Neiman took second in the broad jump at the M. I. T. meet and has improved his jumping in practice since. His loss will leave the burden of the broad jumping for the Crimson on the Shoulders of Hyatt and Quirk...
...price for such relies as those with which Dr. Rosenbach returned. Death masks are ornamental, of course, and a "fine Holland shirt" would probably survive at least one session with the washerwoman: but what secret passion could be satisfied by a "picket containing Napoleon's Hair", and a mummified tendon from the body of the Emperor, in a strange little box with a glass window", is hard for the layman to under stand. Moments of so distinctly personal a character might better have been decently buried...
...shirt, handkerchief, a pair of white breeches ... a mummified tendon...