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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...grounds of the club in Watertown, is likely to prove very interesting, as our men are good shots, while the Pennsylvania men were only beaten by three birds last year. All who are able should make a point of supporting our team, and we can assure those who have never seen a match that the shooting is very entertaining to watch. The walk to the grounds is very pleasant, and the Watertown horse cars pass very near the place...
...well-known Harvard athlete has decided views on the question. Mr. Wendell was captain of the victorious Harvard team which won the Mott Haven cup in '80, '81 and '82. In '80 he won the intercollegiate championships at 100 yards, 220 yards and one-quarter mile, a feat never before or since accomplished by one man in one day. Mr. Wendell is still actively interested in Harvard athletic matters, and his opinion reflects to a large extent the graduate sentiment concerning the proposed change. He said...
...those who are training for some athletic team are "entitled to the preference in the gymnasium and elsewhere" and that those who have only good health in view are "Crowded out and become discouraged." We venture to say that anyone who could make such an assertion as that can never have visited the Hemenway gymnasium on a winter afternoon, or have seen one of the many "scrub matches in baseball and football, which take place every year...
...difficult to decide at the present moment. It is certainly taking a fairer, more impartial view of the case. We believe in a discreet control of athletics at Harvard; like everything else, they should be conducted with moderation. But abolition is not the proper remedy, and never will be, as long as manly, healthy Americans are gathered in a great university like this. If such treatment is tried, and as long as it is tried, other colleges will be the gainers, and Harvard the loser. Our first duty is to become men, after that let us become scholars...
About seventy men are now in training for the Mott Haven team, and the interest taken in track athletics has never been stronger here at Yale...