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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...best material we can find in the college as a whole, irrespective of class lines. Whenever a man shows marked ability or peculiar aptitude for any particular form of athletics, he is pushed forward and aided for the good of the reputation of the whole college. As far as athletics are concerned, he no longer belongs to any particular class, but the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/22/1887 | See Source »

...intelligent work be kept in each branch day after day no good results are obtained. It does not seem very bad to hold off for two weeks in the fall before beginning to train for the foot-ball season. Yet any one who has, knows to his cost how far behind the others he is when he comes into training work. How short of wind he is! How tired he gets! In a week or two more he is, so he thinks, all right. But by the first of November he has a fit of the "blues" or does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Training for Athletics. | 3/22/1887 | See Source »

...everywhere recognized as an important factor in a good all-round player. After the sliding, the dumb-bell drill and run on the track takes place as on any other day. A few times during the winter on very pleasant days the exercise has been varied in so far that the candidates were taken out for a walk across country. There has been no batting in the cage, as the light is bad and it is difficult for the batter to see the ball. Owing to the small size of the cage very little fielding and throwing have been done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base-Ball. | 3/17/1887 | See Source »

...ninth annual winter games of the Yale Athletic Association were held week before last and were universally pronounced by far the most successful ever given by the association. Three Yale records were broken, the running high jump by one inch, the pole vault by one inch and a quarter, and the high-kick by two inches, the latter being only two inches less than the world's record. The sparring and wrestling contests were a great improvement over those of last year, and the whole meeting reflected great credit on the management and contestants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter. | 3/17/1887 | See Source »

...Victim of Conscience" by Mr. Barry, as far as we know, a new contributor to the "Monthly," is a powerful story, drawn in strong lines. Devoid of all false sentimentality that is too apt to impair the value of such a story as this, the straightforward narrative cannot fail to impress the reader. The story is well conceived and well told...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Harvard Monthly." | 3/16/1887 | See Source »

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