Word: well
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...well-rounded Ithacan team included several stars besides Captain Dresser. K. A. Mayer lived up to expectations by winning both the quarter-mile and half-mile. Smith also chalked up a double victory in both the hurdle events, followed each time by his running mate, J. M. Watt. Cornell was weak in field events, only securing 1 1-2 points by Ramsay's tying for fourth place in the high-jump, but her supremacy in track events was more than sufficient...
These conferences have been held for thirty-three years, and on the basis of the knowledge thus gained, the program for this year has been planned. To many men the opportunity of fellowship with students from other colleges, as well as with the speakers and leaders, forms the greatest single feature. The chance offered here of meeting and becoming acquainted with men not only from one's own college, but from many others, is considered most valuable for talking over common problems and ideals and comparing one's opinions on these subjects. Such problems or questions seem to most...
...sports to be chosen for the class will be varied enough to suit the tastes of every individual, but preference will be given to out-of-door sports and competitive games. Also forms of exercise which can be kept up easily until late in life will be selected as well as those which are difficult to continue after leaving college, on account of the elaborate equipment or large number of contestants required. According to such plans, rowing, tennis, hockey, swimming, track events, and soccer will be encouraged, and in winter basketball, squash and squash racquets, boxing, fencing, wrestling and gymnasium...
...games are taking on the aspect of an Olympic meet, with every allied nation presenting a notable array of stars. The American Expeditionary Force organization numbers among its athletes such well-known track men as Lieut. Harry Worthington of Dartmouth, three times national and intercollegiate broad jump champion; Pat Ryan, holder of five world's records in the hammer-throw; F. C. Thompson, all-round athletic champion of the A. A. U.; and Lieut. P. R. Withington '12, former University track captain and two-mile champion...
King "Dope" has been reluctant to choose the University as a probable winner today, but more than one king has recently displayed fatal weakness in choosing winners. It is hardly necessary, however, to emphasize that a large attendance by members of the University will encourage entrants to victory as well as express proper courtesy toward the visitors from other colleges and universities...