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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Judging from past years, Prof. Hill estimates that about two-thirds of the seniors entitled to commencement parts will write them...
...most of the men who were benefitted by the classes in existence at that time have since left college, so that a large amount of new material is at hand which has not as yet received any special physical training. Everyone knows the popularity of these courses in the past and we feel sure that a revival of graded classes will be much appreciated...
...several years past a change has been gradually occurring in physical training at Harvard. As has been shown before, the old system developed simply a few champions, and the little action of the faculty was in the shape of arbitrary rules, passed to render sports subservient to study. Under the new system, commenced with the introduction of Dr. Sargent, the faculty recognized the necessity of exercise holding a place beside study, and to that end have appointed a committee on athletics, who have a general supervision over all forms of exercise. The watchword of the old system was arbitrary prohibition...
...past three or four years the attention of those having this subject in charge, has been toward the development of the first two points of this programme, and the prospect of success is very satisfactory. As has been before stated, the number who visit the gymnasium is, probably, no more than three-quarters of the entire students. The remeasurements already show a satisfactory advancement, and the prizes for general development, to be given at the end of the year, promise to show the possibilities in this direction...
...meeting room in the gymnasium is an institution which should not be allowed to lose any portion of its interest by becoming a memorial simply of the remote past. Such at present seems to be the danger, for no new pictures and trophies to speak of have been put in since the room was first fitted up. There can be found there pictures neither of the crews, nines or foot-ball teams of the past two years. Of course such things can be much more easily furnished now than they will be later, and it seems as if somebody should...