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About 300 entries have been made for the winter track carnival in the Hemenway Gymnasium tomorrow and Saturday. As compared with the entry lists of previous years, this number is unusually large. Additional entries in the dormitory relay races may be made in the blue-book at the Gymnasium before 5 o'clock this afternoon. No one who has not taken a strength test since January 1, or who is on probation, will be allowed to compete. All those who have not taken the strength test must do so today between 3 and 5 o'clock...
...University track team, already weakened by the loss of good material by graduation and probation, is now struggling along with but little support owing to the miserable facilities of our antiquated Gymnasium. It is all very well to revile the undergraduates for not going out early for the team, but anyone who has examined the place where they have to dress for practice cannot blame them very much for their apparent indifference. The locker rooms are dark, unsanitary and improperly ventilated; the lockers themselves are minute and crowded together without regard to the comfort or health of their users...
...track team is not the only sufferer from these inadequate arrangements. The basketball team has a smaller number of candidates than in other universities and a poorer floor to play on, the gymnastic team is handicapped to a great extent, and the swimming team has no University tank to practice in. Aside from these regular athletic organizations, the great number of men who depend on the Gymnasium for their exercise in winter months are forced to put up with disadvantages which keep many men out of the building altogether. When the afternoon classes are in session the floor is often...
...entries for the winter track carnival to be held in the Hemenway Gymnasium on Friday and Saturday must be made in the blue-books at Leavitt & Peirce's and the Gymnasium before 6 o'clock today. All men who wish to compete must take the strength test. In addition to the events already announced, there will be a race of seven laps, or slightly more than one-half mile, with a handicap limit of 35 yards...
...taken was the adoption of the executive committee's recommendation to hold this year's meet on Soldiers Feld on May 28 and 29. James E. Sullivan, president of the Amateur Athletic Union, was chosen to referee the games. Joseph Daniels Leland '09, of Brookline, manager of the University track team, was elected manager of the meet...