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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...combative men self-reliant and self-respectful. We might add to the professor's statement that boxing brings a large number of muscles into play, and is a good strengthener of the arms, back, and, above all, the legs; that it deepens the chest and strengthens in only a less degree the abdominal muscles...
...considers entirely unsupported by facts. Harvard, not with standing her defeats, gained more proportionately than victorious Yale. Individuals may be influenced by athletic success, but the vast majority are governed by other considerations, and their decision is unaffected. Some parents even prefer to send their sons to the less athletic colleges, as they disapprove of the excesses to which these contests often lead. The consideration of this matter will be more fully taken up in the President's report, which is soon to appear...
There are a few others of less note about whose work we are ignorant...
...form a victorious team. But the outlook for a victory over Yale this year is very poor. The nine is not doing its duty either to its class or to its college. From twenty or more candidates at the beginning of January, the number has fallen off to less than the number requisite for a nine with its substitutes. The captain is notoriously negligent of his duties. The work required for training, consisting of hand-ball and exercises on the chest-weights and dumb bells, is gone through in a half-hearted, desultory fashion, which precludes the possibility...
...candidates for the freshman nine have been very negligent in their work in the gymnasium. We understand that the number which makes daily appearance is less than that requisite for a full base-ball team. Harvard College does not keep freshmen at their work because they obtain liberty for the first time in their lives during their first winter here, and fail to understand the right use of it. But now it is about time that the follies of the first term should be cast aside and some work accomplished. The class of '90 made an unenviable reputation in base...