Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oxford-Cambridge boat race is attracting far less attention than usual. Neither crew is thought remarkable, but experts expect the Oxfords to win, as they are the more powerful crew, though both are about equal in point of style. - Yale News...
...Yale Glee Club have decided to visit Old Point Comfort on their Easter trip...
...fortnight will be spent in introductory work and in short daily excursions. The remainder of the six weeks' session will be divided between the Connecticut Valley, the Hoosac Valley and vicinity, in northwestern Massachusetts, and the foothills of the Catskill mountains in eastern New York. Some central, characteristic point in each district, easily accessible by railroad, will be taken for headquarters and short excursions made from it. The plan of the school, so far as it can now be stated, is as follows...
...article in Sunday's Herald by Captain Ward on the training of professional base-ball players suggests many points that would apply as well to rowing, foot-ball and any hard out-door exercise. It is the general law of training clearly put before the reader. "The sum and substance of the whole thing," writes Captain Ward, "is that a base-ball player must recognize the fact that base-ball is a business, not simply a sport." And although college athletics are not looked upon as a business, yet the idea in Captain Ward's words is true...
...much interest in the tug-of-war as usual, yet the preparations for the event were made quietly and there was no disturbance during the long and exciting five minutes of the "pull" itself. Very little unfavorable comment on any part of the meeting was heard; the only point of consequence which we would criticise is the meagre and somewhat bashful way in which the results of each event were announced - a fact which was so noticeable at the last M. I. T. athletic meeting. Much praise is due to the forethought shown...