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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been met by erecting gymnasiums, such as, in our younger days, never even entered our dreams. Here in Boston we have the gymnasiums of the Young Men's Christian Union, and Young Men's Christian Association, open to all, on the payment of a merely nominal fee. The youth of our higher schools have access to the excellent gymnasium of the Boston Latin School, on Warren avenue, though, it must be admitted, under such restrictions as to seriously impair its usefulness * * * * * But perhaps the most noticeable change is that which has taken place in the time and attention devoted...
Some of the gilded youth of the Law School have formed a new law club, the Beck-Holworthy. From the name one would suppose that the club will take up cases of status principally...
...foot ball, allow me to enter my protest against any rash condemnation of the game. I am sadly aware that the present tendency is to emasculate all games and exercises, and frown on strength and courage as old fashioned things, relics of the dark ages; to teach our youth that all games requiring these qualities are brutal and degrading...
...cowardly dread of all hurts? Do we not see that that is the case in the growing popularity of the safe but effeminate lawn tennis, and the substitution of artificial gymnastics for the healthier field sports of our transatlantic ancestors? The long line of puny, pale-faced, pimply youth to be seen to day in our midst must be protected; they must be put back in the nursery where big boys cannot bruise their sickly frames. How refreshing it would be to see a foot ball game conducted on the principle of the modern nurses! The players should be neatly...
...before forbidding it entirely. That it is a valuable game is proved in many ways. Not long ago, the man most qualified to know, the director of the gymnasium, said he considered that it furnished the best exercise of any game. And what is the verdict of the youth of the country? Decidedly in its favor. The Rugby game was introduced lese than ten years ago, and for some years it was in a state of infancy while the larger colleges learned it. Now what do we find? No sooner is the game well known than it becomes immensely popular...