Word: havens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...morning, Dr. Sever instructs the freshmen in club swinging and dumb bell exercise, and every evening a class in heavier gymnastics exercises under his guidance. In the afternoon during the common recreation hour the floor is crowded and all the apparatus is in use. The candidates for the Mott Haven team, usually about sixty in number, have not commenced work yet, but the class tug-of-war teams are practicing for the coming series, and others not athletically inclined, who work only to improve their physical condition, swell this number...
...governors of the New Haven Club have already sent out a circular to the members promising that every effort will be made to render the sport safe and agreeable and inviting all those who may so desire to join the club.-Yale News...
...this snobbery shows itself. Mr. X and Mr. Y, two freshmen, go to New Haven upon the occasion of a freshmen contest between Yale and Harvard. X is an athlete of whom his class is proud. Y is a butterfly. During the game, X distinguishes himself for fine playing. When the game is over, X and Y have a bottle of beer together and sleep all the way from New Haven to Boston with their arms about each other's neck! Very good...
...each event. In the pole vault, Mr. R. G. Leavitt will be handicapped one foot, the shot and high jump will be scratch events. Since the object of these contests is to raise the standard of our work in the events, high enough to win in the Mott Haven games, all men who have even moder ate ability in either of these events are earnestly requested to enter the contests. If we are to win the cup this year, every man who can possibly help has got to take hold and work for the success of the team. If those...
...wish to call attention to the announcement of the H. A. A. in another column. It is of the utmost importance to the success of the Mott Haven team this year that everybody who has any athletic skill should go to work and train for a position on the team. The contests which are to be given this winter are intended to bring out new men and raise the standard of the men we already have in three events which it is very important for us to win at New York next spring. Those events are chosen partly because...