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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first horn of the dilemma we wish to avoid as long as possible, the second is scarcely less disagreeable. But the statement remains true that out of the whole class only eight men ever tried to do anything for the college press, and of that number but five have as yet satisfactorily demonstrated their fitness for more than mediacre work. Why such a state of things should be is almost inexplicable. The small amount of work required of an editor upon any one of our college papers certainly brings more than its due reward in the pleasure and experience gained...
Thus ended the great games with the Lowells, where excitement over athletics between town and gown rose to a higher height than it ever did before, and probably ever will again...
...interest to the college at large to learn the method of training adopted by the Mott Haven team. The team as a whole has been doing good work during the past month, perhaps better than ever before. Every day, soon after four o'clock, the running and jumping squad begins exercise on the chest weights. This is followed by jumping, vaulting and light dumb-bell exercise. As a large development of muscle is not conducive to lightness and speed, none of the exercises are long continued. They are expected to give the men suppleness; and without strict training to prepare...
Such was the origin of our boating here, which was to ripen later into the H. U. B. C. Of course no such thing as an inter-collegiate race ever entered into the heads of those who took part in these races. They engaged in them simply for the fun of the thing, and underwent no severe system of training such as is now in vogue at present. They frequently made excursions in their boats, and occasionally were accompanied by ladies. But in 1851 they were taken by surprise in this way, - Yale had heard that Harvard owned an eight...
...Harvard Hall was built upon the charred ruins of its predecessor. From Harvard Hall, the chapel was removed to University Hall in 1814, which was a new building at that time. In 1858, Appleton Chapel was finished, and with the exception of a few months has been ever since the chapel of Harvard College...