Word: superintend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...candidates for the Intercollegiate team began training last week under the direction of C. H. Sherrill, '89. For the sake of convenience the men have been divided into squads with reference to the event for which they are training, and the following men have been appointed to superintend them. Shearman, '89, jumpers and hurdlers; Robinson, '90, short-distance men; Harmar, '90, long-distance men; Hanson, '90, tug-of-war men, and Weare, '90 S., the bicyclists. The hurdlers will have special work assigned them after Easter...
...late the American School at Athens has been engaged in making some highly important excavations in Attica and the surrounding country with great success. Mr. Earle, of Columbia, '86, appointed by the director of the schools to superintend the excavations at Sikyon, has lately discovered a broken Sikyonian statue, representing Dionysius; also several coins of great historic value. Moreover, he discovered an inscription dating back to about...
Bobby Winston, who for the past two years has trained Yale's track men so successfully, and cared for the base-ball and foot-ball men, is now on his way to Port Townsend, Washington territory. He goes there to superintend the fitting of a gymnasium and the laying out of base-ball and lawn tennis grounds...
There have been several visitors at the quarters during the week. For the first few days Mr. Farley stayed at the house to superintend the examinations which several of the crew were unable to take at Cambridge. This afternoon Messrs. Appleton and Carrol, '85; Mr. McCook, '85; and Mr. Borland, '86, made a short visit to see how the crew was getting along. They remained only an hour or two, however, and left soon for New London. Capt. Meikleham of Columbia has been around once or twice, making final preparations for next Saturday's race. Mr. Adee of Yale...
...exercise should be merely as a means by which this end may be accomplished. Does our university encourage athletic exercise in a measure adequate to this end? The Hemenway gymnasium - the most complete college gymnasium in the country, and the employment of two officials whose duty it is to superintend and develop athletic interests, answer this question emphatically in the affirmative. Compare Harvard with other colleges and draw answers from the comparisons. One of our correspondents stated that sparring was a national sport, as fencing is in Germany. Do the German universities maintain instructors in fencing...