Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given by the athletic committee and by the president in his annual report." The athletic committee recognizing that the erection of the new Physical Laboratory on Holmes field would seriously injure our athletics, have, as is well known, had plans drawn up for the laying of a quarter mile track at the north end of Holmes field. Within this track there would be ample room for base-ball and foot-ball. If this plan is carried out, the ground available for athletics will be increased, even though a large part of Holmes field is taken up by the Physical Laboratory...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I could not help noticing the impatience expressed by nearly all the passengers of a Union car yesterday, at the long delay caused by the stop at the railroad crossing. The conductor slowly wandered towards the track, both hands in his pockets, turned around without so much as looking up or down, and in the same leisurely manner sauntered back to the rear platform of the car. That the cars should be stopped before the crossing is a wise and necessary precaution, but the question naturally arises, if the flagman, who is employed for the very purpose...
...account of the recent accident at the railroad crossing on the Cambridge horse railroad, the conductors have received orders not only to stop their cars one hundred feet from the crossing, but also to walk ahead to the track and back again before starting...
...opinion of many, shown some indiscretion in setting so high a price as announced upon reserved seats for the ladies' days of the winter meetings. This is a considerable advance on the price of tickets last year, when an excuse was made of heavy expenses incurred for repairing the track on Jarvis field and for fitting up the meeting-room in the gymnasium. But now that there is a handsome balance in the treasury of the association, we fail to see why the former money-making scheme should be persisted in and improved upon. This proceeding is at the best...
...Follansbee and Beaman from '85, Allen, Phillips and Kimball from '86. Besides these are Coolidge, Nichols, Lemoyne and Baker, members of last year's nine, some of whom will undoubtedly play in the spring. Three squads have been formed which alternate in using the cage, chest weights and running track between 2 and 5 P. M. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and in using the chest weights and running track from 4 to 5 on the other days of the week. The cage is generally in use by the nine from 11 to 12 every morning. From the above list...