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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...announced in another column, this evening's Physical Training Conference has been arranged with the idea of promoting undergraduate discussion of the subject. There has of late been a growing feeling among certain graduates that some more general plan of encouraging physical development here might be more than justified by the practical good resulting from it. This sentiment was expressed in the report of the Committee on Physical Training, Athletic Sports, and Sanitary Condition of Buildings, to the Board of Overseers. To quote from the report:- "A large proportion of students not being sufficiently strong and active to play...
...offered to certain schools in the neighborhood of Boston the use of the club's boats and free instruction by Richard Glendon, the club's rowing instructor. If the schools take kindly to the plan, and a sufficient number of crews are rowing before June 17 the Metropolitan Rowing Association will provide a special race for them in its regatta on the Charles River...
...gymnasium at Columbia which will be completed before the end of the year, will be the largest and best equipped in any American college. The total floor space, of 168 by 182 feet, will make it possible to require a certain amount of attendance from all undergraduates, and yet leave the time of exercise to the convenience of each man. The university will probably adopt the recommendation of Dr. Savage, the physical director, and require every stndent to exercise in the gymnasium at least two hours a week, unless an equivalent amount of work is done on some athletic team...
...house of Professor Briggs, on Friday evening, Feburary 18, a string quartette of undergraduates is to give an open rehearsal for certain invited students and professors. This rehearsal is the first of a series of six or eight which it is hoped will be given for members of the University. The programme for this initial performance is: Mozart, quartette in D. major; Schubert, Andante and Variations from the D minor quartette; Haydn, quartette in G major...
...certain seasons of the year, outdoor exercise is impossible and indoor work becomes necessary. Unfortunately, also, some individuals find themselves unable to enter upon the usual fields of sport, without preliminary training on the machines. In general, however, a man of ordinary health and fair development can build up his system by football, baseball, rowing, tennis, or any other sport which teaches him quickness of eye and command of his muscles in proportion to their growth, far more efficiently than he can build it up in a gymnasium. The ideal use of the gymnasium is the preliminary crew training...