Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...square car came swiftly out, escorted by eight mounted policemen and stopped in the square. There was a general stir on the part of the strikers but no aggressive action. The car was filled with students in a twinkling and went off amid the derision of the crowd. The track by long disuse had become too clogged, however, and the car, after moving a few feet, stopped, much to the strikers' delight. Two more horses were hitched on, however, and it moved away gaily around by Beck Hall, its escort turned back, met a Mount Auburn car above the University...
...light dumb-bell exercise. As a large development of muscle is not conducive to lightness and speed, none of the exercises are long continued. They are expected to give the men suppleness; and without strict training to prepare them to get into racing condition as soon as the track opens in the spring. The sharp corners of the running track in the gymnasium do not allow very fast work, but every day the spinters cover three or four laps at a good rate of speed. The distance men run further and slower; quite fast enough, however, for some...
...walking squad exercises but little down stairs; pulling on the weights and going through a few movements with the light dumb bells. The real work comes on the track upstairs. The distance walked vary from day to day according to the speed at which they are covered...
...large, and some of them ought to make good men. We have lost several of the men who won prizes for us in New York last year, but we are sure their places will be filled from last year's non prize winners, or from new men. When the track opens, Mr. Lathrop will give his personal instruction to the men, and success of the past two years is sufficient to guarantee that they will be well trained and in the best possible condition to wrestle with the other colleges for championship in track athletics...
...them. Courses in French, English Literature and Fine Arts make good conversationalists; but they help one but little in the stern realities of a legal or business career. Men ought to think previously how they are drifting, before they make their election of courses; for they frequently lose all track of their previous education, their previous convictions, and their previous manner of thinking, by dabbling in the pleasant but deceptive waters of philosophy and art. It is a certain fact that only one man in thirty has a fine philosophical mind; and like the "little learning" which is so dangerous...