Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Gleason, one of the candidates for the freshman nine, fell Saturday while running on the track in the gymnasium, and, it is feared, injured his knee seriously...
...ascribes all actions of the Athletic committee to the policy which aims at giving " the greatest amount of exercise to the greatest number." According to this policy, he asserts that foot-ball and base-ball, limited to a small number of men, have been discouraged, while all gymnasium work, track athletics, tennis, etc., in which an unlimited number of men can take part, have been encouraged. It is needless to state that all thoughtful students at Harvard would heartily concur in any measures which would induce a greater number of students to take exercise...
...open air, during the cold days of the winter months, seems to us extremely objectionable. Some trainers are averse to any exercise in a temperature below fifty or sixty degrees; but, as the air in the gymnasium is very close and fatiguing to men on the running track, our crews may not find it beneficial to follow this rule. The great abuse, however, of the refreshing and wholesome out door exercise lies in taking it when the thermometer atands below zero. On the coldest day this winter, when few persons ventured across the yard without a heavy overcoat, when rooms...
Candidates for the nine run slowly a few laps on the track, and then run two laps fast as if running the bases...
...club house it contains a gymnasium hall, and other rooms devoted to athletic exercises. The gymnasium hall occupies the whole of what would ordinarily be two stories at the top of the building. Its size may be approximated in the mind of the reader, by learning that the track which is in a balcony like the one in the Hemenway gymnasium, is 21 laps, while the Harvard track measures 17 to the mile. The apparatus for this new gymnasium was prepared under the supervision of Dr. Sargent, and embraces all the essential machines for muscle making. Under this hall...