Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...less than fifty men and it would be easy to take care that no one of them would regret it. Or I might make the course entertaining and adjust it to the level of the friend who "slept most of the time." In either case the course would beautifully climb up in the list of the canvass, but its chief purpose would be missed. My aim has been every year to bring psychology to as many men as there are seats in the largest hall of Emerson and yet to keep the course on a high scientific level so that...
...three-legged race and sack race furnished much amusement. The former was won by J. P. Long '11 and O. M. Chadwick '11, and the latter by W. M. Rand '09, both in nearly record time. The rope climb and pole climb were both record breakers. B. M. Vance '08 made the fastest time in the rope climb, beating the record of 8 seconds made last year by 3-5 of a second. The pole climb was won by B. T. Stephenson '08 in 9 1-5 seconds. The previous record was 13 3-5 seconds...
Besides interdormitory relay races, there will be the following events: 20-yard dash, handicap; rope climb, threelegged race, 16-pound shot-put, handicap; running high-jump, handicap; potatorace, wheelbarrow race, sack race, poleclimb, interclass tug of war, 45-yard high hurdle race, open to men who have never hurdled; 45-yard high hurdle race, handicap; pole-vault, handicap; and a 2-mile cross-country race, handicap. The hurdle races, cross-country race, and dormitory relay races will be run out of doors; the two former events will be run on the board track at Holmes Field...
...Lampoon$ time to elect a few new infield "editors" before beginning. They have already showed some ability in this way, and this year have found a new method for their annual infraction of the dual games rules. They attempted to practice on Soldiers Field, but the police made them climb back over the fence...