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Captain J. L. Reid '29 won the race by a scant few inches from his team mate L. H. Flacksman '29 in 28 minutes and 30 seconds. This is considered fairly good time for the five and one half mile course. The order of finish for the first ten was as follows: J. L. Reid '29, L. H. Flaksman '29, R. C. Aldrich '31, W. Madden (H. C.), A. G. Thacher '29, T. Casson (H. C.), F. B. Thumber '30, D. Gatzenmaier (H. C.), F. W. Hyde '30, W. Beane...
...present day of grace, Eve has returned to her old principle of the scant fig leaf, but Adam still clothes himself heavily and laboriously. . . I suggest more color in Adam's clothes. . . . May we live to see a scarlet morning coat worn with fig-leaf-green trousers and a canary waistcoat...
...11/16 in., new world's record. Running High Jump. Won by Robert W. King of the U. S., 6 ft., 4⅜ in. Ten-Thousand-Metre Run. Won by Paavo Nurmi of Finland, 30 min., 18½ sec. Willie Ritola of Finland finished a scant yard behind Nurmi. One-Hundred-Metre Dash. Won by Percy Williams of Canada, 10½ sec. Frank Wykoff, California schoolboy favorite, finished fourth. Sixteen-Pound Hammer Throw. Won by Patrick O'Callaghan of Ireland, 168 ft.,718½ in. Four-Hundred-Metre Hurdles. Won by Lord David Burghley of Great Britain...
...Junior University, on the side of San Juan Hill, is a grey pile of masonry suggestive of an administration building and at the same time, with its terraced roofs for outdoor living, reminiscent of the communal dwellings that the Zuñi Indians used to build. No lawn and scant shrubbery relieve the austere approach. Within, all is spacious and gracious, the solidly furnished home of the family of a man of large affairs. Here lives Nominee Hoover. Hither he was returning last week to await formal notification of his high honor...
...purpose of a college such as Yale to utilize the four years in presenting a great variety of courses from which the average man will be able to select those which appeal to him, within certain bounds prescribed by the requirements for degree. Four years, Yale believes, is a scant period in which to introduce a man to the field of learning and two years of it cannot safely be expended in allowing him to concentrate at the expense of his attainment of the highly desirable liberal education. --Yale News...