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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...final bout, which came after the tumbling, Turnure had the better of it against Hancock, from start to finish, winning 10 points...
...freshman glee club has started out under very favorable conditions. Few freshman clubs have had the attention paid to them in the start which has been given to Ninety-five. The club has all the benefits which the 'varsity has just acquired in the use of the old Hasty Pudding building on Holmes Field. This insures an amount of uninterrupted practice which was not always to be had at Roberts Hall. As far as can be judged at present, the material of the club is fully up to the average of freshman glee clubs, and with earnest work ought...
...disputes as to the winner in any event can be settled beyond a doubt. To all who are familiar with the dispute as to Downs' quarter-mile run at Beacon Park, and know how entirely all doubts might have been avoided if there had been photographs of the start and finish, these suggestions must be most interesting. The mistake about "Cartwright of Harvard's" pole vaulting is an amusing one. In the photograph given, the man vaulting is not Wheelwright, at all, but Sherwin. To be sure the photograph contains an excellent likeness of Wheelwright (whose name some...
...taken by freshmen are most of them such as might advantageously be studied at school. The elements of natural science, freshman classics and freshman mathematics might well be mastered before college is entered. Then with the resources of the college at hand, the student would be able to start right in, without these freshman preliminaries, to the more serious work of the college. Whether it would be better under these circumstances to limit the college course to three years, thereby allowing the graduate to begin on his professional work a year earlier, is another question...
...athletic life of the college took a fresh start yesterday afternoon; out-door work began. It is always an important occasion when the teams can get out of doors; for indoor work, however faithfully it may be done, is still only the laying of foundations. With out door practice begins the rapid progress of a team in the fine points of their work; more life, more of a feeling of actually accomplishing, something takes hold of the men. The spirit with which the crew rowed yesterday showed the advantage of actual work on the river. After the sifting...