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...out-door meeting of the Interscholastic Association will be held June 11, on Holmes Field...
Harvard athletics are fighting against heavy odds, - the weather. The colleges further south have a great advantage over us in the length of the time they can employ in out-door practice. An additional fortnight of work on the diamond and the river, and even on the track makes a great deal of difference in the season's results. In base ball especially the first two weeks of out-door training are highly important in sifting out the valuable material and leaving the nine ready to begin serious work as early as possible. The teams will doubtless realize the disadvantage...
...names will be found several of this year's eleven and a good many members of the class teams, together with some new material. Work on the field will be commenced Monday at 4 p. m. and every day from then till the Easter recess, except Saturdays, regular out-door practice will be carried on. The work is to be undertaken much more seriously than last year and it is believed that the time may be very profitably spent. At this early stage there is an especially good opportunity for men who have played foot ball very little or none...
...meetings; the mere fact that the Athletic Association has decided to go back to three shows that they consider the interest in these meetings keen enough to warrant the change. One of the points of value of these indoor meetings is the encouragement they give to gymnastic contests. While out-door sport is perhaps somewhat more enlivening, its foundations, it should be remembered, lie in gymnasium work. The strength that men acquire at gymnastics mert and all the better able to stand the tests of out-door contests. In gymnastics, as in all other kinds of sport, the greater...
...athletic life of the college took a fresh start yesterday afternoon; out-door work began. It is always an important occasion when the teams can get out of doors; for indoor work, however faithfully it may be done, is still only the laying of foundations. With out door practice begins the rapid progress of a team in the fine points of their work; more life, more of a feeling of actually accomplishing, something takes hold of the men. The spirit with which the crew rowed yesterday showed the advantage of actual work on the river. After the sifting...