Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Tonight a University team meets Yale in a branch of sport which for some reason for other is regarded with less interest at Harvard than at almost any other university. The miserable facilities of the Hemenway Gymnasium account in part for this feeling, for they tend to prevent many men from playing basketball; but even so it is hard to understand why there are only 20 candidates for the team out of about 1450 men eligible to play. With such a small squad to begin with, and with a schedule shorter than most of the other teams have...
...obviously unfair that the University team should be forced to compete on this unequal footing with their adversaries. However, as long as the team is representing Harvard, even under these unfavorable auspices, the least the undergraduates can do is to go in force to the Gymnasium tonight, and encourage them to a victory over our old rival...
Yesterday afternoon the University basketball team had its last practice before the Yale game, which will be played in the Hemenway Gymnasium at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. The work consisted of a short game between the University and second teams, in which the former was outplayed, though no score was kept. The shooting of the University forwards was weak, and the guards were not able to keep the second team from scoring frequently. The University team will probably play against Yale in the same order as in yesterday's practice...
Arrangements are being made by Mr. Garcelon for an indoor meeting in the Hemenway Gymnasium, open to students of the University, the provisional date of March 10 having been selected. The events will include fencing bouts, wrestling, gymnastics and possibly one or two other events. The meeting will be managed by W. P. Fuller '10. A week or so later an announcement will be made as to the events, and the time and place for entries...
...Freshman basketball team will play the Brown freshmen in the Hemenway Gymnasium this evening at 8 o'clock. Captain Stebbins is ill and his place at left guard will be taken by C. Browne. The Brown team was defeated, 30 to 22, in its first game last Saturday by Dean Academy. The Freshman team is light, but passes well, and is less individual in its work than Brown...