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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first exhibition of the Boston Athletic Association was held last Thursday evening, at which over 500 members were present. The exhibition consisted of a dumb-bell drill by a squad of sixteen from the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium, followed by an exhibition on the vaulting or German horse. After this came a class exhibition on the parallel bars, which was followed by an exhibition of Indian club swinging and juggling by D. J. Conroy, of the Y. M. C. A. The next event was a wand drill by sixteen members of the Boston Turn Verein, which...
...solely courses in a workshop, and to make them practicable a small workshop has been fitted up. However, as quite a number of men have signified their intention of taking a course or two in the workshop, it will be necessary to build a large workshop very soon. The present workshop of the physical laboratory is excellent in its kind. It is fitted up with very fine instruments and tools, but is open only to those who have had some experience in handling fine instruments. It is therefore useless for the course of electrical engineering, as its workshop must...
...middle class of the Phillips Exeter Academy have voted to hold a german during the latter part of the present term...
William Cranston Lawton, of Cambridge, is arranging for several courses of readings from Greek authors during the present winter and spring. Besides his course of six readings, which includes an original metrical version of three dramas of Euripides, he is preparing a similar course from AEschylus...
...beginning of the term. Before that time the unsettled state of the organization, and the knowledge that the officers were elected only for the time being, made it impossible for the club to have regular times for rehearsals, and, therefore, precluded the possibility, of its rapid progress. At present there are about thirty or forty candidates for positions on the club. It is designed to make the permanent membership of the club limited to twenty-five men, and during the next few weeks, it will be necessary for several candidates to drop from the organization. It has been decided...