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When senior year came last autumn his world outdid itself to honor him. The faculty which had already made him a Senior Fellow, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key. Sportswriters named him on All-Eastern football teams. Varsity swimmers and trackmen chose him captain. His Psi Upsilon fraternity brothers made him their president. His classmates, who had already elected him their president, put him in the presidency of their honor society, Casque & Gauntlet. Dartmouth at large chose him to head the student governing body. When he went up before a Rhodes Scholarship committee last autumn, it saw at once...
Hallowell then turned back to the subject of the English student's training, and branded as false the idea that English trackmen train on cigarettes and beer. "They do train on what they think is best for them and if this means a glass of beer once in a while they will have it. Sooner or later the English athlete will voluntarily impose upon himself the 'no smoking, no drinking, no late hours' code under which Americans train...
...1/2-40 1/2 tie with the Blue in the winter, the powerful Harvard Freshman track team defeated the Andover outfit, 78-48 Saturday at Andover. The Crimson won nine firsts, and took every place in the broad jump and mile run. Six of the Harvard winners were ex-Andover trackmen. F. J. Lane '36 won the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds, and the 220 in 22 seconds. N. L. Cahners '36 won the hammer throw by only an inch margin, his best throw being 167 feet, 10 1-2 inches. The summary...
...afternoon as the spring track season formally got under way in preparation for the Spring Handicap Meet on Thursday and Friday, April 20 and 21. Captian N. P. Dodge '33, Coaches E. L. Farrell and Jaako Mikkola, and Manager G. M. Fenollosa '33 gave short addresses to the prospective trackmen...
...this Handicap Meet. There is an unusually large number of places open this spring, since 15 men who placed in the 1932 Yale meet graduated last June. The dashes, the mile and the two-mile, the relays, and the hurdles will be well taken care of by veteran trackmen. The hammer and the discus events are also well filled by veterans, but in most of the other field events there are a great many new men needed...