Word: gymnasts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...total strength, were broken this afternoon by Henry W. Lane '95, of Keene, N. H. The figures are not yet made public, but Instructor R. F. Nelligan says that Lane's total was phenomenal and can be beaten by but few men in the world. Lane is an excellent gymnast but has never represented Amherst on an athletic team. He is one of the first four scholars in the senior class, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa...
...association has also received from J. E. Heaton of New Haven, a silver placque which will be given to the winner of the title of "college gymnast" at the close of the season. The sum of one hundred dollars has been given toward the starting of a gymnastic library...
...meeting of the Yale Gymnastic Association, held last Monday, it was decided to confer a "Y" on the "college gymnast." Through the winter contests are held in eight different gymnastic events and the man who wins the greatest number of points becomes the "college gymnast" for the year. Much interest is being manifested in the coming gymnastic exhibition at the Yale gymnasium on February 27 Daily practice is being held on the main floor of the gymnasium, about thirty men being in training for the contest...
...first of the winter meetings was hardly up to expectations, there is little doubt that the meeting to be held on Saturday will be very successful. The Athletic Association has spared no pains to make the meeting a success by securing entries from outside athletes, including the best amateur gymnast on the flying rings, and the college should come up to the mark and provide a large number of competitors. The entries close this evening...