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...articles dealing with the history of the Triangular track meets in which the University team first competed in 1917 against Dartmouth and Penn State. The war intervened and when the meet was revived in 1920 Cornell replaced Penn State on the schedule. Since that year the Triangular classic has been an annual feature of the winter track season...
With the 1928 track season well under way and one of the outstanding meets, the Cornell-Dartmouth-Harvard Triangular classic, just a few days off, a rapid summary and review of Triangular meet history will serve both to recall some of the greatest of Crimson track athletes and to reveal the brilliant record established by the immediate successors of the present team which faces one of its severest tests on Saturday evening, February 25. For when the University track team meets its two traditional foes, Cornell and Dartmouth, in the tenth Triangular meet in the Arena, it will bear...
First, by looking at the comparative scores of the nine previous Triangular meets, an idea may be obtained of the progress which the Crimson track team has made in the last three years. The origin of the classic goes back to the year 1917, when the University runners trailed the Hanoverian spikemen while Penn State, at that time the third party in the meet, made a miserable showing, accumulating only 11 1-2 points. In 1918 the World War intervened and it was not until 1920 that the next Triangular meet was held. Cornell now took the place of Penn...
...rain coat. Even . thus he was instantly recognized. Screamed women: "Save us Fortuna!" Throated men: "Kill the bull:" Serene, the great Fortuna moved with unhurried, catlike swiftness to satisfy the unreasonable demands of his public. Stripping off his rain coat he stepped before the bull, swirling the garment through classic florcos as though it were a bullfighter's cloak, "Go Alfonso!" he cried to a friend in the crowd, "Run! Get me a sword! Our little one (gesturing at the bull, now beginning to charge) will die when you return. . . ." Charged the bull-deftly drawn by Fortuna...
...regarded in its entirely. Whole civilizations, whole movements of thought, are studied, and the final comparison is always with the life of today. No art, no science is considered solely for itself, but in its relative aspect. While accumulating, if unconsciously, a body of facts, the student "meet the classic requirement of seeing life steadily and seeing it whole...