Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sided meet held at the Stadium Saturday the 1922 track team lost to Yale by the score of 78 1-2 points to 38 1-2 points. Yale showed all-around strength, capturing 10 of the 13 possible first places. Captain O'Brien of Yale, who won both high and low hurdle events, was the only double winner in the contests...
Entries for the annual spring track handicap meet close at six o'clock this evening. Any member of the University who has taken a strength test is eligible to compete in the carnival, which will begin promptly at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Entry books are posted at the Locker Building, Leavitt & Peirce's, and the Freshman dormitories...
...will be a handicap contest with 13 events: 100 and 220-yard dashes, 440, half-mile, mile and two-mile runs, 120-yard high, and 220-yard low hurdles, high and broad jumps, shot-put, pole-vault, and hammer-throw. All track candidates who have taken their strength tests are eligible. Blue-books will be posted in the H. A. A., Locker Building, and Leavitt & Peirca's, where entries may be made until 6 o'clock tomorrow night...
...repeal of the amendment is out of the question. Even its enforcement has already been tried and disapproved of by the people generally, such a repeal would create a dangerous rift in the popular respect for organic law. The Constitution of the United States, our national rock of strength, would sink in popular esteem to the comparatively fallible level of certain state constitutions and ordinary statutory laws. Besides this it would cost endless time and discussion on the part of Congress, State Legislatures, and responsible individuals, at a time when all energies should be bent toward reconstruction, and a resumption...
...track events, much of Yale's strength depends on the physical condition of Harvey Reed, the mile runner, and Walter Schleiter, the sprinter, both of whom have been slightly out of form this season. Reed, who returned from military service only a month ago, was unable to take part in the Penn. Relay Carnival, and Johnny Mack, the Eli coach, fears that he will not regain sufficient physical form this year to be counted on as a point winner. During his freshman year, Reed, who came to Yale from Mercersberg as a preparatory school record breaker, reeled off a mile...