Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- The base-ball season is fast approaching and with it comes up a question which is of deep interest to all-the faculty's prohibition of practice with professionals. We have been handicapped long enough by this regulation and must do something to bring about a change. The faculty's position will prove untenable if we only assail it. The first necessity is some one to start the movement. The faculty will never raise their veto unless they are asked. Occasional editorials in college papers or hints in student assemblies have no weight. What is needed...
...interested in the matter. For the benefit of those who did not see the communication and editorial referred to we would say that the proposed plan is for the college to petition the President and Fellows to change the beginning of the spring recess from the day before Fast Day to the Saturday before Easter Sunday, thus allowing us Easter Sunday and Easter week at home. We have heard so many men express a desire for the change that we have been encouraged to start the petition. The book will be kept at Leavitt and Peirce's until further notice...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- According to the catalogue, the spring vacation begins on the Wednesday before Fast Day. Now, Fast Day comes this year on Thursday, April 5th-in Easter week that is-so that our vacation will not begin until the middle of Easter week. Why could not the faculty be induced to let us have the whole of Easter week? To those of us who live away from Boston, it is a pleasant thing to be able to pass Easter and the following week at home. Besides it makes a very fair break in the time between January...
...year. The system of training which is at present being carried out is only initiative of the work which is to be commenced immediately after the mid-years. At present the men are put through a series of hand dumb-bell exercises and are made to run at a fast pace short distances on the running track in the gymnasium. The most important part of their work is done in the cage. Here much attention is paid to sliding bases and batting, particularly to instill confidence into the men while at the bat. The candidates are divided into squads...
...quarter-mile run Yale is weak, and the race will lie between Banks, of Columbia, who holds the world's record at that distance, and Wells, of Harvard, who is remarkably fast and will push Banks very closely for first place. In the half-mile run, too, Yale is pretty weak, and unless some new man turns up this event will go to Cogswell, of Harvard, who was entered in the fall games last year, or Faries, of the U. of P. Both of these men are strong runners at that distance and the winner will have to make good...