Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...announced in another column, this evening's Physical Training Conference has been arranged with the idea of promoting undergraduate discussion of the subject. There has of late been a growing feeling among certain graduates that some more general plan of encouraging physical development here might be more than justified by the practical good resulting from it. This sentiment was expressed in the report of the Committee on Physical Training, Athletic Sports, and Sanitary Condition of Buildings, to the Board of Overseers. To quote from the report:- "A large proportion of students not being sufficiently strong and active to play...
...news articles explanatory of the systems in operation at other colleges, there are a number which seem to have worked well and might meet with favor here. Whether any of these courses, prescribed or elective, counting or not giving credit for an A. B., are applicable, and whether the idea of a fixed course of indoor training is not dangerous in itself as discouraging open air exercise, are questions to be discussed at the conference this evening. It is to be hoped that they will meet with the careful consideration of many undergraduates, and that some conclusion, whether favorable...
...idea of the conference is to promote discussion on the various plans which have been proposed for adopting some regular couse of Physical Training at Harvard, and to discover how the undergraduates feel toward the matter. There have already been published in the CRIMSON a series of articles explanatory of the systems in use at other colleges. Some colleges for instance require physical training and give credit, others require it and give no credit, and still others offer it as an elective and count it toward a degree. Thus there is a good opening for discussion...
...work of the Freshman crew candidates has varied so little during the past few weeks from the routine of machine work, gymnasium exercise, and outdoor running, that there is but little to say in regard to them. They are divided into three squads, each under a captain. An idea of the system of training to which they are now subjected is given by the list of instructions issued to the squad captains, printed below...
...Only two other copies of this volume were printed; one of which is in the Harvard Library, and the other in the possession of a member of the class. The book was planned after the fiftieth anniversary of the class at the suggestion of one of the members. The idea was carried through by private enterprise and in 1895 the three copies of the book were printed in London. It contains photographs of the members of the class and a life sketch of each...