Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Trials were held yesterday afternoon for the purpose of choosing the men to run on the 'Varsity relay team which will race against the University of Pennsylvania in the Boston College games of the 28th; and to pick the Freshman team which will run against the Yale freshmen in the same meeting...
...Varsity race the men will each run six laps or 780 yards; while the Freshmen will run the customary 390 yards...
...perform this duty measurements of every student should be made and exercises prescribed for the correction of any defects which may be found in the individual. In addition to the physical training a short course of lectures on the care of the body should be a required course for Freshmen. Credit should be given to men who have developed physically during their college course, for physical development is an indication of a development in self-reliance and other qualities of character...
...Sargent, the last speaker, spoke of the widespread recognition by college faculties of the necessity of regular gymnasium exercise. He also devoted considerable attention to the details and advantages of required exercise for Freshmen. The giving of credit would have a tendency to soften the requirement and take away the sting of punishment...
Question: "Resolved, That a compulsory course of physical training, combined with lectures on hygiene, be instituted for Freshmen in Harvard College, the same to count as a half-course towards a degree...