Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lack of a director of athletics, or trainer, as such a man is more commonly called. Such a man is needed to give the proper instruction in wrestling, jumping, etc., which events go to make up the programme of these meetings, just as much as for instruction in track athletics later in the season. Much is also due perhaps to the general unsettled tone which has pervaded all branches of sport during the winter. This has been due to the general vacillating and non-committal policy which the faculty have pursued in their attempts to regulate athletics by inter-collegiate...
...Columbia papers say that their freshman class contains some very fine track athletes...
...this perhaps, but it is a fact too important to overlook and too evident to contradict. Twenty years ago the students of Harvard College took practically no exercise in comparison with today. The greater majority of our sports have sprung up since then. Foot-ball, base-ball, lacrosse, tennis, track athletics, etc, have passed up through deferent stages of development; they started with the school boy's idea of playing "for the fun of the thing," in which stage little interest was taken, and soon received the instigation of competition which has been the making of them. Men will...
...Coolidge, president P. B. C. Our past members, Mr. G. B. Morrison, '84; the class of '87, Mr. Royal Robbins, '87; the class of '85, Mr. W. K. Draper, '85; the class of '84, Mr. W. D. Smith, '84; the Mott Haven team, Mr. E. Norton, '85; our Track Athletes, Mr. Thompson, '87; the Shooting Club, Mr. J. A. Frye, '86; the ladies, Mr. S. E. Winslow...
...track at the Institute rink, where the games of the Union Club were held in January, is found to be 380 feet short of a mile...