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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lack of experience in relay racing accounts largely for the defeat of both University teams at the third annual indoor games of the Massachusetts Coast Artillery on Saturday evening. The Boston Athletic Association won the shorter race by 20 yards, while the longer event went to a team, composed mainly of B. A. A. men, by 100 yards. The Freshmen won a close and exciting relay form the Boston College freshmen...
...handicap events four places were won by Harvard men, two firsts and two thirds. The high jump went to A. W. Moffat '13 with an actual jump of 5 feet, 11 inches, and a handicap of 3 inches. H. G. MacLure '15 won the 440-yards run in 55 seconds, after running two well-judged races in his trial and final heats from the 20-yard mark. J. R. Abbot '14, with a handicap of 32 yards secured third place in the half-mile in the last 50 yards of the race. In the 75-yard dash...
...longer relay race, where each man ran 5-laps Captain Withington held Kimball, of the B. A. A. easily for three laps and then went to the front. On the next corner, however, Withington fell heavily and before he could continue, Kimball had a comfortable lead. H. M. Warren '13 was thus handicapped by about 40 yards, and before the end of his relay had lost an equal amount. The third man for the University, W. H. Fernald '12, gained slightly on O. Hedlund for four laps but was unable to maintain this advantage on the last. Halpin...
After a year spent in travelling Mr. Bacon went into the office of Lee, Higginson and Company, in Boston, where so many Harvard men have served their novitiate in business. In 1883 he joined the firm of E. Rollins Morse and Company, also bankers and brokers. In 1894 he went to New York to become a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company, with which he remained until 1 January...
President Maclaurin graduated from Cambridge University, England, in 1897, having shown marked ability in mathematics and law. In the same year he was elected a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and in 1898 went to New Zealand University where he served successively as professor of mathematics, dean of the faculty of law, and finally as fellow of the university. In 1907 he accepted the position of professor of mathematics at Columbia and two years later was appointed president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which position he has held ever since...