Word: outdoors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time approaches when the candidates for the 'Varsity crew will give up gymnasium work and take outdoor exercise, the interest in their movements increases. It is hoped that in less than a month the weather will permit the use of a barge on the river, but at present the harbor is covered with ice. The number of candidates has been reduced to fourteen, but out of this number Yale expects to select a crew that will defeat Harvard in June. Of the men now in training, Stevenson, Wilcox, Carter and Woodruff rowed last season; Cross and Hurd were substitutes...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:-I have heard a number of complaints from people in Cambridge because members of the crews and other individuals run up Brattle street and other streets besides North avenue. North avenue, in previous years, has always been the street on which men who wished outdoor exercise took their run. Having one street thus put apart for the use of students, people who do not like to encounter the crews on the street avoided North avenue in the afternoons. It is certainly unpleasant for ladies walking on the street to find themselves suddenly surrounded by a crowd...
...outdoor games as in indoor contests applause should be a spontaneous tribute to work well done, and might well furnish occasion for the display of independent, and discriminating judgement, as well as give visiting college men the impression that Princeton has positive purpose to show every courtesy to others...
...with us throughout the year and to our summer visitors, and will accompany his talk with some directions for the collecting of birds and eggs. Owing to the considerable number of Amateur ornithologists in college active in collecting, the talk comes very opportunately with the pleasant weather for outdoor work...
...HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 30. - The Yale crew rowed on the harbor a couple of days ago. The reason of this outdoor trial was to test the crew, and see if the work in the tank had produced beneficial results. The trial was highly successful, and Captain Rogers feels much elated. The length of the tank is just sufficient for a barge to be placed therein. To keep the boat from rocking too much in the choppy sea, which is occasioned by the rowing, ropes are suspended from the ceiling and fastened under the ends of the boat. After...