Word: trainning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...early was waked by a loud rap on his door. A series of low groans came from the rooms and then the snap of many incandescent lights. Fifteen minutes later troops of men came hurrying into the dining room where breakfast was waiting on the table. The train for Cincinnati left at 7.20. During the morning there was the usual amount of sleeping and card playing and it was not till the announcement of dinner at Collumbus that the men really awoke. At 12.15 the train rolled into the station and when it stopped there was not a student aboard...
Lunches were served in boxes after the train left Worcester. The new men had an air about them of quiet enjoyment; they seemed to feel that they were just entering the easiest task of a lifetime. The old men realized that they had a hard time before them and many of them slept most of the day. The Wah Hoos elected officers for one year and then the car was fairly quiet. At New York the clubs weat right to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. J. Wendell '91 met the fellows there and made them feel at home After the Concert...
...made other engagements but those who went to the reception were certainly amply rewarded. The Club house is magnificent and the members are most cordial. After this reception, the men went to a tea at Mr. Rawle's. From the concert Friday evening the fellows went right to the train where they had the first taste of the unpleasant side of the +++. The porter had not been warned that be would do well to make up some of the berths beforehand. When the crowd came poring in on him he was overwhelmed with demands. The electric service...
Saturday morning when the first call for breakfast came, the train was crawling along through a heavy snow storm in the region of Johnstown. As it was no scheduled to arrive till 6.15 and was then about two hours late the officers of the Clubs began to be anxious about arriving in time for the concert. As the day went by the train fell behind more and more. Telegrams were sent to Columbus, Ohio, for a special train from there to Cincinnati, and to the manager of the concert asking him to hold the audience as long as possible...
...track athletics is wanted-not only me who have been members of the team but those who have not come out before. There is often a tendency on the part of the old men to delay coming out till late in the season when they rely upon extra hard training to make up for what they have lost in the beginning. New men, as we have remarked before are often diffident about coming out, fearing that they will be of no use in athletics. This should not be; the old men should begin training at once and new men should...