Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There was no gymnasium at that time, and, in fact, no organized sport of any kind. The rowing season lasted for a few weeks only and the training for races was extremely short and light. The crews rowed in large barges. Football was played for a short time in the fall on the delta where Memorial now stands. It was open to all comers, but was only participated in by a few of the six hundred students...
That is the way they do at smaller colleges where there is more enthusiasm in a single man than there is here-as a rule-in the whole College. What better way to open an athletic season than to have a meeting in Sanders and create enthusiasm by speeches by graduates and undergraduates? An editorial in a college paper is a good thing but an enthusiastic meeting before a big game would do more to make the College support their team and Alma Mater than an editorial in a college paper every day for a year...
After some light general practice and a game of "rag," the lacrosse squad played a regular game with two goals yesterday on Holmes Field, for the first time this season. Some of the defense work was weak, but on the whole the playing was good, and gives promise of a successful season. No word has as yet been received from Princeton in regard to the challenge for a game...
...some time. The receipts are far from satisfactory. Unless the members of the University respond more generously to the solicitations of the collectors, it is doubtful whether a training table can be started this year. If one is started it will not be until late in the season...
...feel that the outlook in athletics this year is a very bright one. There is much excellent material in almost every team, and we look forward to a more thoroughly successful season than Harvard has known for some time past...