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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Overseers and Faculty at Harvard should take a step back of the Freshman class. The physical degeneracy of American educated youth is not to be traced to life at the University, but life in the preparatory school. The Harvard Faculty should begin their laudable work of physical reformation by adding a new requisite of admission, in the shape of a prescribed number of hours given to athletics in the three years preceding an undergraduate's matriculation. Exercise is compulsory in all the great public schools of England, and Oxford and Cambridge, as well as Woolwich and Sandhurst, are recruited...
...America the tendency both in school and college is to narrow the number of those who take regular athletic training to those who find some hope of "getting on the team." In England there are dozens of "teams" in each school and the goal is good health and honest sport rather than winning a game. It is this spirit that progressive universities such as Harvard and Yale should foster in the preparatory schools, if necessary, by arbitrarily requiring a certain amount of physical development...
...four hits, up to the seventh inning when Haughton was substituted for him and finished the game. At no time was Harvard's fielding anything brilliant, with the possible exception of a long foul which Robinson managed to reach. For the Graduates, W. Clarkson of the Cambridge High School, who was played in place of Abbott, put up an excellent game at third, making an especially brilliant catch of a long foul in the ninth inning...
Joshua Whitmarsh '92, who died at Henderson, Ky., on June 2, was born in Neponset, April 26, 1870. He prepared for college in the public and Latin schools and graduated from Harvard with the class of 1892. He then became a traveling agent, and, at the time of his death, was contemplating a course in the Law School...
...Butler was born in Boston on October 24, 1857. He prepared for college at Hopkinson's School, graduated from Harvard with the class of 1877 and from the Law School in 1880. He was soon afterward admitted to the bar and for many years practiced both in Quincy and in Boston...