Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valuable equipment. Opened this fall for the first time, several groups of people have been the guests of Dr. Rice on inspection tours. Under his leaderships or that of Weld Arnold '18, instructor in Geography, such tours are apt to start in the basement where a solid cement vault stands at one end of the building. Within it, on a solid, sand-cushioned pillar, there is a rare type of clock, one of seven in this country. It is a product of English manufacture and its exceptionally delicate mechanism establishes for the institute the primal fact of geography, the exact...
...Pole vault--Tie for first place between Woodberry (H) and Schumann (H), 11 ft. 6 in.; third, Miller...
Harvard excelled in the pole vault; two of the Crimson first-year men tied for first honors at 11 feet 6 inches, giving the Freshmen an eight point boost. J. D. Woodberry '35 and Francis Schumann '35 figured as the outstanding Freshman pole-vaulters, while L. Von B. Nichols '35 and Luther Sheffy '35 split with two Andover high jumpers in a tie for first place. Dorman and Ninde of Andover provided the chief thrills of the meet, each just nosing out their opponents in the 600-yard and 1000-yard events, respectively...
...Manhattan trackmeet, Barney Berlinger once took off so heavily for a pole-vault that he crashed through the end-board of the runway. Pole-vaulting is not his specialty any more than weight-throwing, wrestling, boxing, baseball. Considered one of the best all-around track athletes in the U. S., he won the decathlon for the third time in a row at the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival last spring, took more points than any other contestant at the Intercollegiate Indoor Track Championships. Later, he was the leading member of a U. S. track team which toured South Africa. Voters...
...Ambassador Fred Morris Dearing, who brought the best wishes of Herbert Hoover. What U. S. bankers would have liked to hear in President Sanchez Cerro's address, however was constructive mention of $88,000,000 worth of defaulted Peruvian bonds now gathering dust in many a U. S. vault. A movement by the Investment Bankers Association to bring this matter strongly to Peruvian attention was post-poned last week, pending the shaking down of the new Government...