Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the word coming down from Holyoke House that the blue books of the October Bible, Shakspere, and authors examinations are to be locked in a vault for a year or two and then thrown away, attention is focused on the chaos that rules the University's blue book policy. Both in general courses and in special examinations of this sort, the student is left entirely to the whim of the instructor as to whether he sees his work again or not. For though some teachers are willing to hand back and discuss their students' papers, the average undergraduate...
...down are Al Banlon, currently out with since trouble, Bill O'Conner, Dick Brayton, and Dick Dyer, and Dave Flower in the shot put, while another expected mainstay is the transfer George Klain, who is out for football; Sears in the hammer; Cook, Pottingell, and Mulliken in the pole vault...
...found a primitive skull fragment in the gravel at Swanscombe, Kent. Few months later a bigger piece, the left parietal bone, was discovered. In his latest report to Nature Dr. Marston stated that his skull is more primitive in a number of points-including a lower and more sloping vault, "flat ruggedness and non-filled out contours"-than the skull of the Piltdown man, and therefore that the Swanscombe man should be assigned his rightful place as England's oldest oldster...
...admire her. Generations of medical students learned neurology by tracing her ramifications. She made a special trip to Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Hahnemann Medical College made Dr. Weaver a professor, gave him a Rufus B. Weaver Anatomical Museum, gave "Harriet" an honored vault. In 1925 he retired from teaching. Last week when arteriosclerosis and his 95 years made him unable to resist longer, Death took Dr. Weaver...
...track addicts. Last week 40,000 eyes focused on this talented trio of milers as they jogged around Princeton's sun-baked track in the first lap of the Amateur Athletic Union's 1,500-metre championship run. Suddenly a tiny group intent on the pole vault let out a roar. What had happened, spectator asked spectator? A husky, blond San Franciscan by the name of George Varoff, they learned, had just twisted over the bar at the incredible height of 14 ft., 6½ in. By the time the crowd leaned back again on Palmer Stadium...