Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Delegates from Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Union College, New York University and Haverford met in the Columbia Gymnasium on Wednesday and formed an intercollegiate gymnastic association. Harvard was not represented, but will join the association and will send a team to the meet which will probably be held next March at the Columbia Gymnasium. Temporary officers were elected and a committee was appointed to draw up a constitution and by-laws. The competition will be on parallel and horizontal bars, on swinging rings and horses and in tumbling and club swinging...
...challenging Harvard to a cross country run; but as the Yale team had already had one month of training, and not enough time was allowed Harvard before the competition, the challenge was declined. As soon as the long runs are over the weight candidates will commence work in the Gymnasium, but the remainder of the Mott Haven team will not begin training until January...
...hundred men have been given the physical examination at the Gymnasium since the opening of College this fall...
...meeting will be held at the Columbia Gymnasium on December 6 composed of representatives from Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and New York University, to take steps toward forming an intercollegiate gymnastic association. In order to choose the Harvard representatives for the intercollegiate competition, which will be held at New York in March, a preliminary competition will be held, at which the two best men in each event will be selected. In addition an exhibition will be given in the Gymnasium during the winter, and a dual meet with Yale or Columbia may be arranged...
...regular winter work in the Gymnasium is now well under way. Besides the gymnastic classes held every afternoon, there are two classes in fencing practice Tuesday and Friday evenings at 7.30 and 8.30 respectively...