Word: go
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spent within sight of the old pile! Will you kindly ask the parietal committee, or whoever has our welfare in charge, to institute some graded system, by which the classes should draw for rooms in order of their seniority. What is left after they have what they want, could go to the sub-freshmen. These boys have four years of chances before them, and can afford to wait...
...same mark with a stout man. A nervous fellow must be treated differently than the others. Yet the members of our crews, and base and foot-ball teams are all trained alike. When a man gets over-trained they do not let him rest a day and then go on. If one finds his lungs a little weaker than the others, and that he cannot run from a warm gymnasium into the cold, frosty air without injuring himself, he leaves the team. And yet, perhaps, that very man would row a better race in June than the others...
...amateur concert that showed no traces of those dreadful evils which are so apt to be brought into prominence in such performances. The work of pushing the fund in aid of the School at Athens has been begun with energy. So worthy an object will not need to go begging...
There is no doubt that in the matter of base-ball practice, Harvard is strongly handicapped by her opponents, Yale and Princeton. The two last have large and commodious buildings in which to practice hand-ball, etc., before the time comes to go on the field. The contrast is made greater by the fact that our nine, by its geographical position, is debarred from out-door practice until several weeks after our opponents. Besides this, the 'Varsity is compelled to give up our small cage to the freshman nine and to the lacrosse team some part of every afternoon. Again...
...year and is substantially as follows: Three times a week the game of handball is practiced in the cage by squads of four men from fifteen to twenty minutes a day. As soon as the time for one squad is over and the next one is ready, the men go through a light dumb-bell drill, and then take a run at an easy pace of about seven laps. Four years ago hand-ball was not played at all in connection with the training of the base-ball nines, but now there is not a college in the country which...