Word: occasione
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are ten candidates for the freshman tug-of-war team in daily practice at the gymnasium, under the direction of Capt. Adams. Although the limit of six hundred pounds prevents very large and heavy men from competing, yet the majority of the contestants are muscular and well-built, and...
A report of one of the most harrowing outrages of the season comes to us from the back-woods of Maine. We have often taken occasion before this to comment upon the awfulness and depravity of the practice of hazing, and Bowdoin College has more than once furnished us a...
...culture he is as far from the golden mean as the man who advocates the other extreme. Excessive athletic exercise is as injurious as none at all, and the error of the president of Princeton College is shared by many people. We are told by the learned professors that occasionally a student suffers some slight injury in the gymnasium which for a day or two necessitates absence from the class room, but nothing is ever said of the broken down book-worm whose back is bent, shoulders rounded and eyes ruined. At Harvard College the gymnasium...
Without desiring to be impertinently suggestive to those who know their duty, it would perhaps be a good thing as the mid-years approach, to draw up a list of the different characteristics of that season that seem to need a remedy. There will be no use grumbling after the...
It is finally decided that the Metropolitan Athletic grounds, New York, are to be divided into two parts for the use of the two professional nines of the city. An eight-foot fence will divide the two fields at the left field of the present ground. This will be constructed...