Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From the point of view of the spectator, it is hard to recall a meet more intensely interesting. The weather was cool and threatening, but there was scarcely a breath of wind to interfere with the runners. The Yale track has recently been recoated with cinders and has been otherwise improved, and although not yet firm enough, is much better than in former years. As a result the performances were excellent. The dual records in the half-mile and mile runs and in the hammer-throw were broken, and in the quarter mile and high hurdles the old marks were...
...that a powerful organization has been developed from new material. Harvard, also, showed even greater strength than was expected by defeating Cornell, 63 to 54. The times and distances recorded in the two dual meets last Saturday indicate very poorly what either team is capable of doing, because wretched weather seriously handicapped the work of the athletes both at Princeton and at Soldiers Field. It is apparent form the results, however, that neither Harvard nor Yale is remarkably strong in the sprints, and the outcome of these events remains in doubt. Yale, as usual, has powerful performers in the hurdles...
Thiry-five players, representing six different schools, participated in the tournament. The scores of the schools in the team championship were as follows: Exeter, 15; St. Mark's, 7; Lowell, 4; Rogers, 3; Newton High, 3; Country Day School, 0. The bad weather conditions handicapped the contestants, but the play was nevertheless fast...
...meet with Michigan last Saturday demonstrated its strength and versatility. While the Harvard team has no exceptional individual performers, it has already proved its strength in at least one department by winning the intercollegiate cross-country run last fall. This spring the team has enjoyed unusually favorable weather conditions, and the records in practice show that it is an organization well trained and with well distributed strength which Captain Cummings leads today against our new opponent...
...lunch counter in the pool room in the basement of the Union which was tried this winter for the first time has been closed until next fall owing to the warmer weather and consequent loss of patronage...