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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first merit, the opportunities offered the team for practice with the various local clubs about Cambridge, might be used to the most practical advantage. Much of the apathy in athletic team work which is complained of among the students is to be traced directly to the restricted number of popular sports and to the consequent high proficiency necessary to an admission into the teams. While it may not be practicable for Harvard to follow the example of Oxford and Cambridge and send her undergraduates to a man for a spin on the river, a great amount of the energy hitherto...
...article on our first page on the Dartmouth Aegis. calls attention to our own Index. The Harvard Index is published for use and convenience only. At Harvard, such a publication as the Aegis would not succeed, would not, we think, be at all popular. Certain it is that the "grinds," as they call them, would not be endured here. We almost wonder that they meet with favor anywhere. An explanation is found, perhaps, in the fact that in other colleges which are smaller, the students are better acquainted and generally more intimate. Only on the score of great familiarity...
Turning somersaults in mid air from spring board, seems to be fast becoming the most popular form of exercise in the gymnasium...
...PATCH, teacher of Guitar, will receive a few more pupils in Cambridge on this popular instrument; most interesting and simplified method now in use. Best of references. For terms and particulars address F. W. Patch, Box 76, Waltham...
...PATCH, teacher of Guitar, will receive a few more pupils in Cambridge on this popular instrument; most interesting and simplified method now in use. Best of references. For terms and particulars address F. W. Patch, Box 76, Waltham...