Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Holmes field is beginning to assume its wonted appearance and work on the ball field and tennis courts will be begun shortly. The work of rolling and raking the track began yesterday. As it was in no condition for use, Mr. Lathrop improvised a triangular track in front of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. On this Messrs. Wright, L. S.; Rublee, '90; Brackett, '91; Howe, '91, and Paine, '91, walked a mile, making it in eight minutes, twenty seconds. The walk was merely for practice, no attempe being made to make fast time. Beside the gymnasium, hurdles were...
...Cornell senior class intend to give the University Athletic Association a cinder track instead of the usual class memorial. The ground will be given by the University...
...went up Broadway to Harvard square, ascending the steep grade on Broadway without difficulty. From Harvard Square, the car went down Kirkland street, and when put at full speed made twelve miles an hour. The trial trip was entirely satisfactory, and if a few minor obstacles, pertaining to the track can be overcome, the journey to Boston will be robbed of its present horrors...
...publish to-day a communication from an officer of the Athletic Association, which takes us to task for the editorial that appeared in our columns yesterday, criticising the lack of energy shown by men in track athletics. The writer is apparently laboring under the impression that the criticism was directed against the officers of the H. A. A. If he had read the editorial more carefully, he would see that this was not the case; but on the contrary, that it was directed against men in college who have ability they will not develop. If the editorial in question...
...place last evening. The question for the evening was, "Resolved, that the inter-collegiate contests of Harvard should be with Yale alone." Mr. J. A. Bailey was the first gentleman to dispute in favor of the affirmative. He said the respective merits of Harvard and Yale in field and track athletics were materially obscured by the admission of smaller colleges in the league. The financial aspect of the case was of great importance and could not be ignored. Harvard's share of the gate receipts in New York would be minute compared with the returns if the games were played...