Word: events
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot be overestimated. Without disrespect to college athletics in general, perhaps no branch of athletics has fewer objectionable features than rowing. It calls forth at once the manliness and the physical endurance of each contestant and offers little or no incentive to sharp dealing. In this, then, the crowning event of our college athletic year, nothing that will further good feeling and loyal college spirit should be omitted; and surely a glee club concert on the coming occasion would at once bind Yale and Harvard men together, and fill the air with genuine loyal enthusiasm for old Harvard...
...interesting to compare the best English college records with the best performances of college athletes in America. It seems that out of a total of eleven events the Englishmen hold eight, the American colleges two, while one event, the 100 yards dash, is a tie, at 10 seconds. The following is a carefully prepared table showing the best records so far announced, for American and English colleges...
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Shearman, Yale's representative in the pole vault, broke his pole; and as Leavitt, Harvard's representative, refused to lend his pole, Shearman was obliged to take one so heavy that he could not do his best and lost the event. This act of Leavitt's, the story declares, is the more discourteous because at the games a year ago, when the positions of the two men were reversed, Shearman very kindly lent his pole to Leavitt...
...considerable question whether the pole would endure the additional strain; it was therefore perfectly natural that Leavitt should be unwilling to lend his pole. The case was brought before the measurers, who decided, but not unanimously, to allow Shearman to borrow Leavitt's pole. After Leavitt had won the event handily, breaking the record, the measurers declared themselves much relieved that their decision had not affected the result. As to the Yale men's statement that Shearman lent Leavitt a pole last year, it is only necessary to state that Leavitt was sick and did not compete in the intercollegiate...