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Harvard College appears to have carried athletic training to its farthest extent, but when we consider that the Greeks spent years, nay lives, to win a race or throw a wrestler, we seem, in comparison, to have paid but little attention to the training of our bodies. To the Greeks, especially, of all people, the primary requisite for success in public and private life was a corpus sanum, without which the use to them of the mens sana was gone. Thus, in training their bodies, did Pericles, Demosthenes and nearly every Greek whose name and fame have been handed down...
This cup has been awarded for the past seven years to the college winning the most events at the inter-collegiate meetings. In '76 it was won by Princeton, in '77, '78 and '79 by Columbia and in '80, '81 and '82 by Harvard. The winners of the meeting in 1882 were Goodwin, '84, one-half and one-quarter mile runs; Morison, mile run; Norton, 2-mile bicycle race, and Soren, running high jump and pole leaping. Mr. Lowell stated that Yale and Columbia were making great efforts to win the cup this year, but that the Harvard association were...
Many schools have been established with the end in view of fitting aspirants for the stage, but, under their training, it is only by talent and years of assiduous toil that a pupil is prepared to appear before a critical audience and win applause and fame. It has remained for our own university to solve all doubts, and found a school in which the dull and talented alike are fitted in a week, sometimes even less, for exalted positions on the stage. Of the peculiar fitness of Boston for a debut, on account of its well known "cultured" audiences, nothing...
...would be a lifelong matter, as a man always remains a graduate when once he has attained that position, while a freshman passes usually through that stage in a year; so that it seems better for the freshmen to yield. The proviso can be made that in case they win the Yale game the upper class men are willing to suffer the additional discomfort of the crowding at the tree that will come from their presence there. But the trouble last year arose from the indecision of the senior class. At first the regulations were passed and afterwards rescinded...
...reference to these games a Boston paper says: "In spite of the comparatively little interest taken in lacrosse in the college, and in spite even of some opposition to the support of a lacrosse team, such a team has been kept up to win." The "opposition" thus mentioned was such as an article in the Advocate of October 21, 1881, shows: The writer, after discussing the rights of the lacrosse team to use the land granted it by President Eliot, and stating that the "game was of very little importance to the university," goes on to say that since...