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...candidates for freshman eleven be in gymnasium at 3 o'clock for short in-door practice...
...wishes to keep himself in health, reduce the amount of carbon which he has been in the habit of introducing into his system. Fats and alcohol should be tabooed. The need of fresh air in all exercise is very great, and this is the great objection to all in-door exercise. The actual results of impure air arising from too many people in one place, is shown by the sufferings of those confined in the "Black Hole" of Calcutta. Huxley has computed that a man needs 23,000 cubic feet of air every day, that his excretions of carbonic acid...
...congratulate the management of the team on the push and energy which they have evinced in the collecting the means for putting up the prospective base-ball practice shed. This will undoubtedly be a great improvement on the little dingy room to which the winter in-door practice was confined. An early completion of this building is desirable, that our nine may commence practice as early in the year as possible. Courant...
...athletic club of the Institute of Technology holds its first in-door meeting of the year on Saturday, Dec. 19. The following events will be contested: Fence vault, putting shot (16 pounds), running high kick, running high jump, standing high jump, pole vault and parallel bars. Tugs of war will be contested by the different classes; '86 has held the class championship in this since its sophomore year, and the prospects are that it will hold it throughout, although '87 expects...
...part to the indirect influence of the new athletic sports. They afford a vent to the surplus energy of youth, which formerly expended itself in muscular undertakings of a more destructive nature. There is, also, probably far less lounging in rooms during leisure hours than prevailed before the in-door gymnastics and the exciting field sports came into fashion. The effect on the health of the students, it cannot be doubted, has been extremely beneficial. Games in the open air, which call for the utmost vigilance, self-possession, promptness and pluck in those who take part in them...