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Dates: during 1890-1899
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DEAR SIRS - Through your columns I should like to call the attention of the gymnasium authorities to the condition of that part of the gymnasium known as the cage. The only fielding practice that candidates for the freshman nine can get there is in trying to stop seven or eight grounders every afternoon. This practice amounts to very little at any rate and is reduced to almost nothing by the condition of the ground. In five cases out of ten the ball does not bound within three feet of where it is expected. It ought not to require a great...
...report of the treasurer of the University Boat Club which is published in this morning's CRIMSON will be found interesting reading. The Boat Club has suffered much, like all the other organizations which had to do with the training table of last year, from the unfortunately careless management of what we still believe was an attempt in the right direction. The accounts of the training table have not yet been made public, but we hope that they may see the light before very long, and that the college may learn whether a similar scheme would be again feasible...
...Chileans are in many respects like the people of the United States, vigorous, fond of Republican government as they understand it; a commercial people who have been called the "Yankees of South America...
...Prospect Progressive Union, and it is hoped that a large number of the students may attend. The clubs will be made up as they were on the Christmas trip, the '92 men having consented to take part in this one concert; the programme will be as far as possible like that used in the west. The tickets are selling well in Cambridgeport but not so well at Amee's. The Union is becoming so closely connected with the University that the students should feel it a duty to attend this concert as far as they are able...
...features of past winter meeting which should go by the board. The wrestling events can be dropped with advantage. The number of men who are interested in this branch of athletics is not large, and the bouts are always stupid and tiresome. The spectators, as well as the athletes, like events that go with more snap. The fencing and broadswords contests of last year were new and interesting. The executive committee of the II. A. A. should exert itself to make up programs which will be as far as possible fresh and attractive. Then those who are interested in athletics...