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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hare and hounds afforded the very best means for vigorous recreation. For those who hope to become members of the Mott Haven team as long-distance runners, no better opportunity for increasing their powers of endurance could be afforded them. The interest evinced in hare and hounds during the past three years is sufficient proof that the exhilarating sport has obtained a firm foothold here, and, with a proper display of energy on the part of the athletic management, the first run ought to be held early next week...
...much in need of support. The managers of the Guitar Club have obtained some Spanish music during the summer, and, if all the candidates who ought to present themselves do so, we are confident that this club will be as successful as the Banjo Club has been in the past. Both clubs have our sincere wishes for success...
...question of the torchlight procession was the next business, and, after considerable debate, it was finally voted to join the republican procession as has been customary in past years. It was distinctly understood, nevertheless, that the action of the class did not in the least commit it to the support of the republican candidates, the object of marching being to have a good time, and not to make a political demonstration, as the matter has always been decided by the senior class in the past, and action on the part of the other classes has not been customary...
...several years past the need of a new gymnasium has been strongly felt at Yale. The size of the present building is wholly inadequate to the ever-increasing wants of the college. The apparatus, though of the latest pattern is not in sufficient quantity to warrant many students exercising at the same time. Dissatisfaction with the present state of affairs has resulted in the raising of a fund for the erection of a new gymnasium, which is to be larger than the old and to be centrally located. Professor Richards, who has the collection of funds in charge, has announced...
...Aside from the question of the advisability of thus placing the complete control of the crew in the hands of graduates, a study of the result of this experiment in the past year cannot fail to be instructive. One of this Governing Committee was a graduate of 20 years standing, two of ten and the other rowed recently. They were all rowing men, and when in college had proved themselves good oarsmen, but the standard of rowing, like everything else, is continually improving, and to keep up with this advance a man must not only follow the improvements most carefully...