Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Next Saturday on Holmes Field the 10th annual outdoor meet of the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Harvard University will take place. Twenty-one schools will be represented. This association was formed in 1884 by a number of Harvard graduates, but not until 1889 was the organization made a permanent one. Then a silver cup was offered to the school scoring the most points each year, and individual prizes to the winners of the various points...
...closing June 22. The class will assemble each day in the lecture room of the Bussey Institution, where a review will be given of certain groups of trees and shrubs. It will then adjourn to the plantations and the nurseries of the Arboretum for an informal outdoor study of the plants. It is not proposed that the instruction given in these meetings shall be technical, and a knowledge of descriptive botany is not essential for persons who wish to follow them. The intention is to indicate by comparison the easiest means of distinguishing the common native trees and shrubs...
...early date a field will be laid out back of the Gymnasium, goal posts will be erected, and the game will be made an outdoor sport...
...There is considerable good material in training, and it is very probable that a strong team will be on the diamond to represent the college next summer. Capt. Draper has the candidates in the gymnasium, the weather being so cold and the ground in such a had condition that outdoor work is yet impossible. The number of candidates has been thinned down to 16, however, and these have been measured for suits. Trainer Woodcock has charge of the men, and he is giving them rigid work. Among the candidates there are several men who played on the 'varsity last year...