Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interest in shot putting among collegians is traceable, I believe, to the desire for football men to take up weight events for off-season training. It is natural that they should turn to weights and yet it is a difficult task for the big man to perfect timing and rhythm, which are all-important to the shot putter. The increase in public interest in the event is not difficult to explain. This week's competitors will toss the sixteen-pound ball from a spot within the view of thousands in the Stadium. It will require only a glance to show...
...Columbia, 6; Dartmouth, 5; Penn, 5; Princeton, 4; Harvard, 3; Wesleyan, 2; Lehigh, 2; Cornell, Michigan, Amherst, Stanford, Penn State and Southern California, 1 each. Yale in the old days had a monopoly in the high hurdles but in recent years it has changed so that any college may turn out a winner...
...Committee. Twenty-eight of them replied, and all but seven favored the abolition of the rule. The majority were evidently actuated by disgust at the spectacle enacted in 1924. But it might be supposed that the seven standpatters would give specific reasons which made them immune from the general turn of opinion...
...lead rowing the high stroke of 40 and then dropping the beat a few points to a strong steady Jail they continued to draw away from the other two boats. At the finish they had at least a three and a half length advantage over Tech, which was in turn leading Harvard by something under a length...
...undesirable thing; it has reacted unfavorably by overcrowding the college at the expense of Sheff, and was, of course, the origin of the chapel change, in that it was the lack of seating accommodation in Battell that led to the alternate-chapel plan of last year which in turn resulted in a reconsideration this year of the whole chapel matter and its recent abolition. One reason for this overcrowding of the college was the transplanting of the select course under its new horticultural designation of the Ph. B. course in Yale College by which one student could get his Yale...