Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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HOWARD ATHENAEUM. - Oliver Byron in "The Inside Track...
HOWARD ATHENAEUM. - Oliver Byron in "The Inside Track...
HOWARD ATHENAEUM. - Oliver Byron in "The Inside Track...
Candidates for the freshman crew have now been reduced in number to about fifty. They row half an hour in the gymnasium every afternoon, work on the weights, and take short runs on the track. Every one of the fifty candidates who applied is said to weigh over 150 pounds...
...college will have an opportunity to-day of seeing what promise the freshman class gives in the way of track and field athletics. The fall freshman athletic meeting is always looked forward to with much interest, not with any great expectation that records will be broken, but because it is the first time that the freshmen have occasion to show their skill in that branch of athletics which has ever been peculiarly Harvard's, We cannot impress too strongly upon the competitors the necessity of doing their very best, for the chance of places on the Mott Haven team depends...