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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletic ground back of Divinity Hall if the expense does not appear to be too great. The lot contains four acres and will provide room for at least two or three new baseball fields. Members of Engineering 2 have been surveying the field for some time past...
Experimental trips have been made with the electric cars the past week from Harvard Square to the West Boston bridge. The running time proves very satisfactory. It is understood that the line will be formally opened from Harvard Square to Bowdoin Square next Friday...
...severe, it being Mr. Cady's plan to get the men into good physical condition by means of light but daily systematic exercise before attempting to do any heavy work. This plan of exercise has been adopted by the captains of the Harvard nines for the past two or three years, and it is wise on Mr. Cady's part to continue the policy of training the candidates in the kind of exercise which will serve to quicken the hand and the eye and make the muscles firm, rather than to attempt a system of heavy training. Last fall...
Until this week the work done by candidates for the baseball nine has been confined entirely to battery practice in the cage, but now the candidates for other positions on the team have commenced active training. For several years past the college has not been so much in need of new material to fill vacancies as at the present time. Only four old players from last year's nine and substitutes are now in college-the other positions must be filled by men whose experience in baseball has been limited to practice with class nines. It is easy...
...Lathriop. The class is given instruction daily in the use of dumb-bells and Indian clubs, followed by practice in tumbling. The number of men who take part in this last mode of exercise now numbers about thirty and from the improvement which has been apparent during the past few weeks it is certain that when the winter meetings arrive, there will be a large list of entries for the event in "tumbling" which has always been a source of amusement to the spectators...