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...insight into the religious services of the college, and find for themselves that religion at Harvard is not entirely dead, as many persons are led to believe. The winter months have been chosen for these services, as all the members of the University are then less absorbed in out-door interests. The half hour just before dinner was selected as convenient both to students and to professors...
Prof. Cook was fond of athletic and out-door sports and especially constant in tennis playing. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and it is a grim fatality that he should receive his death-wound from a weapon to the use of which he had long been accustomed...
With the beginning of warm weather, and the close of work in the gymnasium, the interest in out-door sports revives. The tennis courts are always occupied, but as there is no tournament to excite special work in that direction, Lake Wabau offers greater attractions. The crews of the several classes have begun diligent practice in order to make their annual display on "Float Day." This occurs on Saturday, June 5th, and shows to our guests the result of the fall and spring training of the crews by their respective captains. The junior crew usually does the smoothest work, since...
Saturday the H. A. A. held its most successful out-door meeting for years. The events were well contested and the games passed off with snap and vigor. Two inter-collegiate records were broken. Chamberlain threw the hammer more than a foot further than the previous record, and Wright and Bemis both walked the mile in better than record time. Fast time was also made in the mile run. Altogether, the prospect for the Mott Haven team was never so good. In all probability, Harvard can win in New York the same events as last year, and ought also...
...large and level field devoted to tennis, where the young women compete in agility and skill. The first tournament took place last fall and developed some excellent players, - who would be more than a match for many of the other sex. Coasting and skating are the prominent out-door sports in winter, and there are special opportunities for both. This interest and participation in athletics, which is seen at all large schools for women, is rightly regarded as one of the most promising signs of the times; and there are many who predict that the day will come when...