Word: interests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gymnasium at Williams college is crowded every afternoon by the men who are training for the different athletic organizations. Of course nearly all the interest of the college is centered at present in the base ball nine, and the candidates for that team have first choice in the use of the gymnasium apparatus. The prospects for the nine this year are exceedingly bright, and great hopes are entertained that the pennant will remain another year where it now is. Mr. Casey, of the Philadelphias, is coaching the nine...
...Wheeler touched upon the coloring used in the decoration of the Parthenon, describing how the different parts were colored. In his next lecture he will continue in his discussion of this, and will trace the subsequent history of the Parthenon. This lecture will be one of very great interest...
...unusually large audience assembled in the lecture room of Jefferson Physical Laboratory, yesterday afternoon, to hear Dr. Wheeler's third lecture on the Acropolis of Athens. Dr. Wheeler had reached that interesting portion of his subject where he was to take up the Parthenon, which probably accounts for the increased interest...
...mass meeting of Columbia students held recently, adopted resolutions favoring the appointment of an alumni advisory committee to act with the athletic organization. This committee will be appointed at the next business meeting of the alumni, and will doubtless greatly increase the interest of the graduates in the college games...
...spite of the time devoted to study great interest is taken in almost all branches of athletics, and fine grounds are laid out for cricket, foot-ball and tennis, as well as for track athletics, while about two miles from the school is Long Pond, which furnishes a good stretch of water for the crews. Cricket might be called the school game, and every effort is made by the masters to encourage it. Each of the two cricket clubs, "Isthmian" and "Old Hundred," have four elevens, and the school team is picked from these. Base-ball has been forbidden...