Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experienced entrants, Kernan and Greenidge, while Carpenter is the leading discus thrower. Merril in the broad-jump, Dunker, Evans and Eastman in the shot, and Gerould, Hyatt and Morse in the high-jump present a field of probable scratch men of unusual ability. Only in the pole-vault and weight-throw is an experienced group lacking. These two events should provide ample opportunity for inexperienced material to test their skill with the 35 pound weight and the vaulting pole. Since there are virtually no experienced men in these two departments, any high performers in today's meet will receive serious...
...Pole Vault...
...track practice has not begun until after the close of the Christmas holidays. This year, however, the weakness left in several field events by graduation last spring, has made necessary early practice in order to train their inexperienced successors in the fundamentals. The two weakest departments are the pole vault and the hammer throw, in which no veterans are returning. At least one "H" man from last year's track team reported for work at yesterday's practice, in the remaining field events; F. K. Kernan '24 in the javelin, C. C. Carpenter '24 in the discus, Captain...
Some volumes, having attained patriarchal age, may not impossibly be granted a dignified privacy in the chill seclusion of a Vault or behind a wire mesh, but they suffer correspondingly in that they are thus completely cut off from the reading world. After all, a book must necessarily cherish a yearning to perform its function of imparting its con tents. There is little satisfaction in social position per se if no one bothers to find out how it was attained...
There is a special need in the field events department this year. Marshall, the University mainstay in the hammer, will be gone, while both Davis and Reidy, who divided the pole-vault honors between them, last spring, have graduated. Broad-jumping is also a weak department, and will need considerable bolstering before spring...