Word: weight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...equalled. A. C. Gilbert of Yale did 12 feet, 7 3-4 inches in the pole-vault, thus bettering Dray's former world's record of 12 feet, 6 1-2 inches. In the competition for the discus throw, free style, A. K. Dearborn, the former Wesleyan weight thrower and New England intercollegiate record holder for the discus throw, best Martin J. Sheridan's former world's record of 136 feet, 2 inches, with a throw of 139 feet, 11 inches. In a heat of the 100-metre race, Robertson of Virginia equalled Jarvis's world's record...
...rowed much better together than Cornell, who had rowed in the same order only four times previous to the race. The Cornell men appeared to row more as individuals than as a crew, and there were obvious discrepancies between the lighter men in bow and stern and the heavy-weights in the waist of the boat. The two points in which the visiting crew were supposed to have the advantage, watermanship and weight, were thus more than counterbalanced...
...that we hesitate to predict just what the outcome will be. There is one thing, however, on which we can rest assured: the petition and the proposed plans of the undergraduate committee, which will soon be made public, are going to have a good deal of weight and no one need feel that our efforts have been in vain...
...Governing Boards and the Faculty at Harvard can legislate to better advantage when they have before them college public opinion; but the question which they most constanty ask is whether the opinion expressed in the CRIMSON is really representative. Unless it be that it can naturally carry little weight. To make it that is the business of the board, which ought to regulate its method of securing editors with this in view. Since the personnel changes from year to year, there is always the danger that it may deteriorate, and always the hope that it may improve...
...three silver cups, offered by W. Minot 1L. to the candidates of the University track team in the hurdles, high jump or pole-vault, and weight events, showing the greatest "general merit" during the season, were awarded yesterday by Captain L. P. Dodge '08, Coaches Lathrop and Quinn, and the donor. The cup for the hurdler was given to W. M. Rand '09, for the high jumper or pole-vaulter to S. C. Lawrence '10 in the pole-vault, and for the shot-putter or hammer-thrower to L. W. Bangs '08 in the shot...