Word: training
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unusual interest in boxing and wrestling. The formation of the sparring club has brought out several clever men who are anxious to show their ability. At the meeting recently called for wrestlers, some dozen or more signified their willingness to enter a class under Mr. Lathrop. If they all train there will be more competition than there has been at any time since the present seniors were freshmen. The shot putting is liable to be not very good, for nobody has as yet begun practice for that event, and most of the old men have left college...
...VARSITY MUSICAL CLUBS.- The train leaves for Portland at 4 p. m., from the new Union Station B. and M. R. R., Western Division. Men should take 3.10 Cambridge street car from Harvard Square. Glee Club please do as decided at last rehearsal...
...Thaddeus Almanac's Scientific Proposal," by L. W. Mott and L. How. The hero's unfortunate experiment with a phonograph in connection with a matrimonial proposal, is very entertaining. Somewhat less so, though still good, is C. G. Christian's "Ambition Lowly Laid." "On Beacon Hill," by A. C. Train is, as its author calls it, a sketch, and is very well drawn...
...Lathrop has developed some of his best athletes from men who had not previously had any reputation in athletics and such men should not feel their inexperience a bar to their beinning to train. It is especially hoped that all heavy men who are not already working with other teams will come out and work for the weight contests...
...weather in Pittsburg was damp and dismal, and the men were not sorry when the train started Thursday afternoon for Cleveland. The members of the clubs had a much needed rest of a day here, and on Friday gave the best concert of the trip. The musical clubs of Harvard, Yale and Princeton all gave concerts in Cleveland within one week and some of the alumni of the three colleges proposed giving a cup to the clubs that gave the best concert. A committee of judges was appointed, but the plan was finally given up. A dance was given...