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...candidates for the track team resumed training in the Gymnasium yesterday after a two weeks rest. After exercising half an hour with the pulley-weights and dumb-bells, the runners ran to Porter's Station while the men trying for the field events received instructions from Mr. Graham in the Gymnasium. The men are now expected to get themselves into good condition as quickly as possible. Work in the Gymnasium, varied by long walks or runs, will be continued until the track on Soldiers Field can be used...
Candidates for the University track team have been Working daily in the Gymnasium for the last month. The work at present is light, consisting in pulley weight and dumb-bell drills, followed by starting practice in the basement of the Gymnasium, and ending with a run on the outdoor board track. The 150 candidates have been divided into four squads, two in the afternoon and two in the morning. There are also special squads three times a week, for high jumpers, hurdlers, shot-putters and pole vaulters...
...this year. The candidates will begin work Monday morning in four squads, at 11 and 12 o'clock and at 3.30 and 4.30 o'clock. Every candidate is expected to work every day, but not necessarily always in the same squad. For the present the work will be in pulley weights, low hurdles, light dumbbells, and running on the outdoor track...
...game originated, a body of a thousand students finds constant use for fifty courts, even during the football season. At Harvard, where there are no out-door games to detract from the sport, its popularity should certainly be equally great. I can not believe that men take to pulley weights, dumb-bells, rowing machines, and Dr. Sargent's wands by preference...
Prior to this the old style of apparatus was used, made by the college carpenter and arranged any way. The hanging ropes were of tarred hemp and the man who attempted to strike the rough canvas-covered striking bag was usually content with one blow. The pulley weights were swinging iron balls, unguided by rods, which swung and banged, raising clouds of dust. After a man had grasped the cold iron handles he usually found it better to hold on than to let go. After the first few day's work the weak men were eliminated by "unnatural selection...