Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...looks as if those interested in the L meant business this time. According to the provisions of the bill under which the Meigs Railroad is incorporated, it is necessary to build half a mile, and then make thorough trials of the merits and safety of the road before the track can be continued to Harvard Square, so we shall have to wait a year or two without doubt before the much desired means of rapid transit can be ours. The point at which the trial half mile begins is in East Cambridge, near the Bay State Glass Works...
...resulted in the choice of men whom we believe to be thoroughly representative of the main body of students. No society, no interest predominates. Among the delegates are men who have taken part in the various athletic sports, rowing, base-ball, foot-ball, and in the contests of the track and the gymnasium. Other interests are by no means neglected. The scholarship of the college is well represented by the three scholars of highest rank in the several classes. Then to the great mass, of students who are neither athletic nor especially studious are not deprived of able representation. With...
...Labor on track...
...word of warning. In the past the association has been extremely fortunate in its officers, yet this good fortune has been the result of chance rather than that of the exercise of any special forethought on the part of the members of the society. If in the future our track athletics are to be kept up to the standard of former years, we must continue to place men in control of them whose experience has fitted them for their positions. We trust that the wishes of the officers of the association may be heeded, and that the students...
...athletic grounds at the university, under the personal care of Mr. Pennell, have been vastly improved, and the running track has no superior in the country. Nothing has been done about the new gymnasium beyond getting subscriptions, and it will probably not be started before next year. Dr. Sargent, of Harvard, will attend to the fitting up of the old refreshment room as a gymnasium with all the latest improvements, and it is claimed that it will be the most perfect gymnasium for its size to be found any where. The base-ball diamond at the athletic grounds has been...