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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Your correspondent of Saturday has stated so admirably what has long seemed to me the cardinal defects in our system of athletics that I cannot but say a word in his support. I think it may safely be said that we train the few at the expense of the many; and thus in athletics as everywhere else produce a little group of specialists. Now this might be an excellent policy were our specialists always to remain with us. But their stay is always limited. As a rule they play but three years at most. When they...
...system now is to collect a small body of men to train, and educate them carefully for any given team, to dismiss the worse one by one, and at last retain only the necessary number of players. The fault in this method is that many come to college without that education in any branch of athletics which for all the teams - except the class crews - is necessary as a guarantee that they are worth educating. How many who are indifferent players when young, as they develop their bodies, develop also a talent in some branch of athletics. Others who have...
...stroke will be the regular "Bob Cook" stroke, and Percy Bolton, the celebrated single sculler of Sheffield Scientific School of the class of '86, will begin to coach them on March 1. In the meantime Captain Rogers, assisted by ex-Captain Cowles, will train the crew. They have as yet no training table, and no restrictions have so far been placed on their diet and beverages. It has always been felt that considerable valuable time has been lost each spring in changing from the action of hydraulic machines to the light swift shells that are used on the harbor...
Among the passengers on the ill-fated Modoc train which collided with a freight train a few days ago were two Harvard students, members of the class of '88. All the baggage which they had brought on was destroyed...
Captain Guy Richards of the class of '87. Columbia College, has begun training the candidates for the "Varsity" crew for 1887, at Wood's gymnasium. The following have entered as candidates, and will train until the selection is made in March: R. C. Applegate, '89, 190 pounds; C. A. Stevens, '87, 163 pounds; S. Harris, '87, 174 pounds; B. Lockwood, Jr., '87, 160 pounds; C. E. Beckwith, '88, 170 pounds; G. F. Warren, '88, 156 pounds all of the crew of 1886: also new men, as follows: W. C. Butler, '87, 160 pounds; G. B. Rice, 87, 155 pounds...