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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...grown to its present proportions. With the growth of the association has come a marked rise in the standard of the athletics themselves. At the first meeting of the association the hundred yards dash was run on one of the Southboro' roads; now there is no track which the young athletes consider too good for them. Much more pains is being taken, too, in the training; many of the competitors have been working under Mr. Lathrop, and Mr. Cornish of the B. A. A. has had many others under his care. The result is that much more interest is manifested...
...this has a direct bearing on college athletics. A great majority of these young fellows enter some college or other, many of those in the preparatory schools around Boston coming to Harvard. The train which they get at school, especially if they work under Mr. Lathrop, is of immense help to them when they come to run at college. This school training shows itself in two ways when the fellows come to college: first, there is a higher quality of athletics in the entering class and the material can be worked into first class shape in a shorter time...
...Standing jumping" by Malcom W. Ford in Outing for March, treats of the broad and high standing jump and is a valuable article for the instruction of young athletes. It is clear and practical and explains the methods followed by an athlete who has gained a world wide reputation on turf and track...
...salaried alderman is responsible for a single department, or for several closely allied parts of the public business. He is elected to his office because of his knowledge and skill in a special field of municipal work, and takes charge of that department. Thus, city work offers to a young German a life career. An educated man makes a special study of water-works or building-laws or poor-relief. He learns the methods of the best European cities. He serves his time in the administration of some small town, and, perhaps, gets a place at the head...
...YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. - The mid-year social will be held at the rooms this evening at 7.30 o'clock...