Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred and seventy-one ballots including those which were discredited for being improperly marked were cast. It is believed that this unprecedented number is due to the lively political activity going on in the Yard for the past few days...
...fortnight ago Miler Glenn Cunningham ran the world's fastest mile in 4 min. 4.4 sec. Last week, with his Dartmouth record not yet officially accepted, he competed in the annual games of the Knights of Columbus in Manhattan. Without close competition-Gene Venzke crossed the line 30 yards behind him-he breezed through a mile in 4 min. 7.4 sec., breaking his own (recognized) indoor record by one second. Seventy minutes later he attempted something more difficult. He entered the 600-yard race, less than half his usual distance. The others made a sprinting start. He elected...
Allan Hancock was the browbeaten son of an overbearing dowager who made him house his wife in the back yard of her vast Los Angeles estate. In 1925 he lost his only son, Bertram, in the Santa Barbara earthquake. He turned to mechanics, playing engineer at the throttle of his Santa Maria Valley Railroad engines; to aeronautics, learning to fly and fostering the Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria; to music, with serious and successful study of the cello; to yachting, with what has become a formidable interest in marine biology...
...this feeling in mind, the class of 1913 reunion committees are planning a less strenuous program with plenty of time every day to sit around and talk for a while. Classmates and their families will dine, dance, watch a cabaret show the first night, under the elms in the Yard if the night is clear...
...field day with sports for all comes the next day, and a pops concert at Symphony Hall in the evening. Class day exercises in the Stadium and the Yale Baseball game are on the rester for the third day. After Commencement exercises in the Yard on the last day, the class meets for the Farewell Luncheon and then departs for home...