Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year ago this is especially gratifying, and bears witness to careful and intelligent training. Not only is the conservative policy adopted this year at the outset in regard to competition in indoor meetings now justified, but the measure of giving a lay off at the beginning of the outdoor season, proved a wise one. Further ground for congratulation is Harvard's good showing in the field events, where points were gained which made the difference between defeat and victory...
...scored the tieing number of runs. After the discouraging showing of the team early in the season the work of the 'Varsity nine was an agreeable surprise. The southern teams were all stronger this year than at the corresponding times last year, several of the nines having begun regular outdoor practice as early as January...
...average by arousing more general interest in the test, it may lead to exaggeration of individual work at the expense of the athletic teams. Beneficial as gymnasium work is and to be encouraged among a certain class of men, if it puts a premium on indoor in opposition to outdoor exercise, and encourages individual at the expense of team work, it is in measure disadvantageous. This fact has already been recognized by a number of men with the result that our list of 50 strong men can as a whole scarcely be called representative. Thus though the danger exists...
...work of the Freshman crew candidates has varied so little during the past few weeks from the routine of machine work, gymnasium exercise, and outdoor running, that there is but little to say in regard to them. They are divided into three squads, each under a captain. An idea of the system of training to which they are now subjected is given by the list of instructions issued to the squad captains, printed below...
...past the connection between gymnasium training and real athletics has been far from complete. If the gymnasium work is to be further increased, outdoor athletes and coaches might well have a greater share in its management...