Word: tracks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...broadest application suggested includes all the athletic, journalistic and musical organization under one general musical head, the present financial officers of these being sub-treasurers of the "University" treasury. In its narrower and more practical form, the plan would include only the base-ball, foot-ball, lacrosse and track athletics...
...reasons advanced for this step are these: that, whereas some of the organizations are financially very successful, others are constantly in debt and are appealing to alumni for aid. The alumni looking out simply for the credit of Princeton do not feel like giving money, say for track athletics, while the foot-ball and lacrosse are declaring handsome dividends which are being divided among the members of those teams. The alumni think that all the financial resources of the various teams taken as a whole, should be exhausted before they are asked to contribute. Then, feeling that they were aiding...
...Cambridge Tribune indulges in a complaint against Harvard athletes for using North Avenue as a running track. "Squads of them," says the Tribune, "frequently monopolize the sidewalk, crowding to one side persons who happens to be in the way as they rush past. Sometimes they select the street, and frighten horses as they run by them, clad in airy gymnasium costume. This use of a principal street as a training ground is getting to be an intolerable nuisance, and should be stopped." Of course, we regret very much that Harvard men should be the cause of an "intolerable nuisance." although...
...colleges to wrest the inter-collegiate championship from Harvard. The Yale trainer is reported in the papers as saying that Yale will send a stronger team to Mott Haven than she has for years; and Columbia, to, has a hard working squad, bent upon gaining renown for Columbia in track athletics. Brooks, the sprint runner of Yale, intends to run this year, if we are to believe reports, and the candidates for the running high jump and the broad jump, two events in which Harvard has lost very strong men, are out in full force. In short, greater efforts than...
...diffidence in such matters is to be deplored. Many men are dissuaded from presenting themselves thinking that a place on the team is a mere matter of favoritism. Nothing can be further from the truth for, under the supervision of the H. A. A. and Mr. Lathrop, success in track athletics and a position on the team is a matter of personal worth and perseverance...