Word: various
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...invitation of Brown University a meeting of representatives of the leading eastern universities will soon be held in Providence to consider the various phases of sport in their relation to colleges. The conference will have no binding effect upon the universities represented, but the opinions expressed and the general conclusions reached will, it is hoped, react in favor of a uniformity of regulations governing college athletics in the East. Summer baseball is understood to be one of the questions which will be considered...
...feel confident that such a club would be of great practical benefit to the various undergraduate organizations, that it would do much to unify the now widely separating interests of the University, that it would have the effect of broadening and enriching the individual life of every student at Harvard...
...Haven team, and the centre section will be given over to the class teams and men not regularly on the 'Varsity teams. Overhead the large centre portion, which is now useless, is to be enlarged by flooring over the well, and turned into a general exercise room for the various teams. It was also proposed to lay out hand ball courts in the vacant spaces at the rear of the building...
...found in the fact that all of these colleges, without an exception, require physical training of their students, exempting, however, from the gymnasium work all men on the athletic squads. The result is that many men, who would not otherwise think of doing so, come out for the various teams to escape the less exciting gymnasium exercise. The athletic efficiency of these colleges is thus materially increased...
...enough men turn out, and the shooting is satisfactory, the club intends to enter a team to compete in the various rifle and pistol matches at the New England Sportman's Exhibition to be held in Mechanics Hall in March. Every man at all interested in any branch of rifle shooting is therefore urged to join the club and compete in the practice shoots, one of which takes place at Walnut Hill this afternoon...