Word: summer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Physical Training School for Teachers, which has been carried on so successfully in Cambridge for the last five years under the direction of Dr. Sargent, is to be supplemented by a new and comprehensive course of physical training in the Hemenway Gymnasium this summer...
...report sent out Monday that representatives of Columbia College were in town conferring with Yale in regard to the latter's being admitted as the third crew in the race at New London next summer, and that Yale was willing to have them do so, is pronounced by Captain John Rogers. Percey Bolton, the coach, and many others of the crew to be utterly without foundation...
...prettily gotten up in a crimson cover, with "Rah, 'Rah, 'Rah, 'Rah, '89" on the outside. The book is a complete record of the life of the crew from its organization in October, 1885, up to its final victory over the Yale and Columbia freshmen at New London last summer. It is brightly and amusingly written from beginning to end. Little incidents are told of each man on the crew, and each one is given his own peculiar nick-name. The author gives a very interesting account, to begin with, of the organization of the crew. To quote...
...Chaldee, Syriac, Greek and Latin, formed a large part of the curriculum. Besides this motley array of languages, mathematics, physics, astronomy, politics, ethics, logic, style, imitation, epitome and declamation were required branches. History formed a part of the regular work in winter, and was superseded by botany in the summer months. One cannot help being amazed at the thought of this vast array of learning being crammed into a three years' course, but it is probable that the studies were very superficial, for we have evidence that the education afforded by the early college by no means equalled that furnished...
...spring of '68 then opened, with all ambition apparently dead in base-ball circles, though the nine voted to challenge the Lowell and Yale to match games. It also proposed to take a summer tour, the expenses to be lightened by the Pudding and other theatricals which had for the first time offered their services in this direction...