Word: takings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...compelled to give up our small cage to the freshman nine and to the lacrosse team some part of every afternoon. Again, the light is very poor, and effectually prevents any good ball work. All these things can be remedied very easily next year, if the ball management takes the matter in hand early enough. With the present surplus which the H. U. B. B. C. possesses, the hiring of some building like the old Harvard rink is both feasible and profitable. This building has lain vacant all winter, and could doubtless be hired for next winter for a mere...
...regular examination in N. H. IV. which was to take place a few days before the spring recess, has how been postponed until ten days after the recess...
...week the game of handball is practiced in the cage by squads of four men from fifteen to twenty minutes a day. As soon as the time for one squad is over and the next one is ready, the men go through a light dumb-bell drill, and then take a run at an easy pace of about seven laps. Four years ago hand-ball was not played at all in connection with the training of the base-ball nines, but now there is not a college in the country which professes to do any gymnasium work which does...
...yard dash appears to lie between the same men, though S. G. Wells, L. S., Harvard, is also a fast man at this distance. He is expected to take the quarter-mile with A. Coit, '87, of Yale, or J. F. McGuire, '90, second...
...Coxe, '87, of Yale, will probably take both the hammer and shot; Rohrbach, of Lafayette, competing with him for the shot, and Brinton and Gibson, of Harvard, for the hammer...