Word: discusions
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...preparing a discus for the use of the spring meeting, Professor White intends to secure the measurements and a pattern of the discus in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and, perhaps, of certain ones in the British Museum, and then have several manufactured from these patterns for our use. This will be done as soon as possible so that practice may commence at once. Professor White himself intends to appear on the field and take part in the practice. Although the sport would seem to be decidedly more graceful, and, as regards exercise at least, more satisfactory than putting...
Prof. J. W. White offers to give the Athletic Association a discus, the throwing of which will constitute one of the events in the spring meeting. He thinks that throwing the discus may prove as popular as putting the shot, and perhaps supersede it. Such an event would certainly add a great deal of interest to our meeting...