Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spring running meeting of the Myopia Club, which began yesterday at Mystic Park, proved to be a very successful affair, and afforded a day of rare and exciting sport...
Entries for the discus-throwing closed at the post. - The event proved to be of considerable interest, but the throwing generally seemed to be marked by lack of skill and practice. It can evidently be made a very graceful and enjoyable sport. Messrs. Denniston, '83, Kip, '83, Page, '83, Paulin, '83, Follansbee, '85, Leavitt, '82, and Cumming, '82, entered. Kip won by a throw of 82 feet, with Denniston second throwing 69 ft., 6 in. The best Greek record is said to be 90 feet...
...organization of a second lacrosse team at the college is significant of the growing interest at Harvard in this pleasant sport. To those who are not patient of the close training required in other sports, or who have lacked any previous practice before coming to college, lacrosse offers an excellent opportunity for entering into a lively and interesting game. Their success of last year seems to have had a very favorable effect upon the lacrosse men. May they put forth even greater efforts this year and secure an even greater success...
...increasing warmth has brought out all lovers of sport. Tennis, base-ball and lacrosse are on the boom, and from twelve o'clock on, the orange and black in every possible combination is seen upon the campus. All the many tennis courts have been newly laid out and marked, and are now well patronized...
...strange how little attention is paid by Harvard men to some of the sports which figure on the list at the inter-collegiate games. For instance, the shot and hammer are suffered to rest, while dozens of men run on the track. One or two contestants in these sports revel in a sort of solitary training, and are sure of success from a total absence of competitors. If some of the heavy men would so far sacrifice themselves as to try a few feats daily, or to throw the hammer every afternoon, they would probably discover that this sport...