Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supposedly serious-minded student, who hopes for a degree with distinction, is sentenced to years of hard labor on the rock-pile of the Middle Ages, before he can turn his energies to the building of his house. Even then he has only the heavy timber of the 18th century novelists, or the romantic poets, with which to raise his super structure. He very seldom gets far enough even to consider adding a roof. The natural question arises: what is the good of a house founded upon a rock, if there is no thatch of sufficient thickness to keep...
Today, compulsory athletics for Freshmen has proved its worth. It has forced some unwilling men to exercise; it has aided others who wanted to participate, but somehow or other never got around to it, until ordered. It has uncovered varsity timber in many instances; a pole-vaulter who may never before have held even a broom-stick in his hand, or a sprinter who never knew how his chasing after fire-engines in his youth had helped him for college. Compulsory Freshman athletics Las proved so beneficial that some regret that its scope is not broader; that Sophomores...
Last year in the hurdle races Thomson of Dartmouth, Krogness of the University, and Wells of Leland Stanford were the strongest men; but even with these three runners gone the timber-topping events should be as sensational as ever. In the lows, Falk of California, who captured second place last May, will run again and will need his full strength to beat Taylor of Princeton and Meyers of Rutgers. Hauers, Thayer, or Fitts may pick up a point or two for the University, while Hulman of Yale may place. Thomson, Princeton's all-around athlete, should win the highs, although...
...getting along without her for several years, meanwhile constantly improving their condition. there is no reason why they should not continue to do so. If Russia were what she was ten years ago, she could be of great service to the European nations, with her large supplies of grain, timber and other products. But today she is producing nothing, and is able to purchase nothing. What could trade with her amount to? She could supply none of the other nations' needs, and she could buy nothing from them, unless somebody loaned her the money with which to pay for things...
Princeton rolled up its large score against the Elis principally in the field events and the hurdles. Thompson of the Orange and Black won both the timber-topping races. In the 220-yard lows he bettered the time made by Thayer of the University Saturday, but in the 120-yard highs did not go as fast as Whitney in the Crimson-Blue meet...