Word: maining
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that the club system will develop and the interest will continue in that form. But you cannot expect this to happen by quick action; it takes a long time for it to develop and it can only be done by gradually working the one out of the other. The main interest that draws men to these sports in the winter is the prospect of the intercollegiate games. The sports are new and they require stimulus. Hence they will cut short the only interest of the undergraduate life at that dull time of the year...
Besides the main office, there are five branches: the Sailors' branch in the Battery, the East Side branch, the West Side branch, and branches in Brooklyn and Harlem. The Sailors' branch deals with the impositions practiced upon seamen, and has done much in the last twenty years to raise the legal standard of the sailor. The East and West Side divisions both practice among foreigners and the lowest classes, and do much good in settling the petty cases of the neighborhood. With these objects in view, and partly to discourage the litigious spirit among the lower classes, the purpose...
...original building contained the main hall, 115 feet by 84 feet at its widest extent, the running track, rowing room, bowling alleys, committee rooms, measuring room and office, while the lockers were in what is now the chest-weight corridor. The crew practiced in the rowing room, but the various petty teams that occupy the Gymnasium today were not taken into consideration...
...athletic centre of the University. When it was built, it stood appropriately at the entrance to Holmes Field, the old athletic grounds. Since the donation of Soldiers Field, however, all athletic interests have been moved across the Charles, and the Gymnasium was left away from its natural position. The main hall is very small, and the great amount of apparatus decreases the floor space. That the running track is value-less is proved by the fact that a board running track is built outside on Holmes Field for the track work during the winter. Basketball and track practice conflict...
...delivered by Professor H. S. Nash '78, on the Episcopal Theological School, in the Noble Room of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7.15 o'clock. Professor Nash will talk on "The New Testament as a Book of Witness to the Powers and Presence of Christ in History." The main subject of Professor Nash's course has been "Is the New Testament a Trustworthy Book of Witness to the Mind, Work, and Person of Christ...