Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stands today as one of the greatest figures ever known to University crew annals. Coming to the University in the fall of 1915, Mr. Haines, together with Mr. R. F. Herrick '90, developed a crew which set the record time for four miles on the Thames, broke Yale's string of crew victories, and gave the University a clean sweep of three triumphs on the Thames the next spring. For two years the war interrupted Mr. Haines' work, but since the resumption of crew activities in 1919, he has won and lost one race to Yale, last year seeing...
...Yale is handicapped beyond ordinary conditions by the loss of its best men and strengthened correspondingly by the arrival of new stars, the exact opposite holds true at Princeton. The Tigers lose only five men who could in any way be regarded as regulars or first string substitutes by graduation this year. "Mike" Callahan, captain of the 1920 team, and "Joe" Scheerer, the famous punter, are the two greatest losses Princeton will feel. Stiuson and Davis on the ends and Halsey at tackle are the only other men of importance to go. But Thomas is capable of filling Calshan...
...last event of the winter track season. As the purpose of this meet is to stimulate greater interest in track among the men who have not had any opportunity to compete this winter, all the events of the meet will be arranged with handicaps. The first string men will be set back a sufficient distance so that it will be difficult for them...
...tomorrow marks the end of the winter season, and will serve as a means of gaining experience for the handicap and interclass meets which will be held early in the spring. The purpose of the meet is to stimulate widespread interest in track, especially among the so-called second string men. With this purpose in view all the events of the meet will be arranged with handicaps...
...requirements, Harvard demands both History and Physics,--two difficult topics, in neither of which has the College Entrance Board ever deemed it expedient to pass many candidates. While the standard for History, in any one of its branches, is considerably higher than for Physics, the latter subject has a string attached to it in the shape of a laboratory examination which can only be taken at Cambridge. Certainly, these are exactions which must make the average sub-freshman think twice before applying for admission to Harvard...