Word: track
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That good athletes are apt to be good students, that Harvard track men as a group, lead all other Crimson athletes in the class-room, and that football players at Harvard are consistently poor scholars, are conclusions to be deduced from the first intensive study of scholastic standings of Harvard athletes, figures of which were made public this morning by H. W. Clark '23, Assistant Athletic Director at Harvard, who under the Bingham regime has been acting as a link between the H. A. A. and University Hall...
...reason for football being consistently lower than the other sports, probably the best answer that can be advanced is that in football there are more men who come to college to engage in their chosen activity than in any other major sport in the College. Track men noticeably, and baseball and crew candidates to a lesser extent, are drawn from men who come to college without big reputations in their preparatory schools...
...special train for 12 days amid open fields to query Moscow for further orders. Every day the engine would chuff to a neighboring village and return with food, mostly canned. Amid this interlude of perplexity, and while the empty tin cans were piling up on either side of the track, Trotsky amused himself by re-reading several works by Anatole France, famed and precious French scoffer. When, in obedience to fresh orders from Moscow, the Trotskys were booted into Turkey (TIME, Feb. 11), Comrade Trotsky sent the following note to Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Pasha: "I was brought here against...
...announcement in yesterday's CRIMSON that two golf greens will be constructed on the class football fields near Longfellow track will be warmly welcomed by University golfing enthusiasts. This move, which marks the materializing of the Athletic Committee's recommendation of last December, presents several favorable aspects. Not only is this much desired recognition of golf in accordance with the athletics for all policy inaugurated by Athletic Director William J. Bingham, but it is a partial fulfillment and facilitation of an off-expressed hope that provision for all Harvard athletics, especially golf, may be made in proximity to the college...
...soon as the condition of the ground will permit, the two golf greens, which the Athletic Committee voted to be laid out on the Longfellow Track at Soldiers Field, will be constructed. The laying out of the two greens, for which appropriations were made at the December meeting of the Committee is the first step in a program to encourage golf as a sport in the University...