Word: distracting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This afternoon being so near the start of the year there should be little to distract the attention of students from the football game with Dartmouth. Though the training of the eleven is not yet very far advanced, its first meeting with another college is always much more interesting than the daily work of the University squad. Students themselves will be well repaid for attending the game today, and a large attendance is but the due encouragement to Captain Brewer...
...club has a match with Columbia, and the Whist Club settles its tournament with Yale. Of all these, the annual University track athletic games on Holmes Field will have a monopoly of the interest in Cambridge. We are glad that there is no other athletic event of importance to distract attention from them...
Interest at Harvard in gymnastic exhibitions has never reached a very high pitch, for there has been much to distract it. In former years, when three winter meetings were held, at least two of them generally lost all claim to the name by coming in the early spring rather than in the winter. At that time the many forms of outdoor athletics received all the attention of the students, and the natural result was neglect of the winter meeting. The Athletic Association not long ago found itself obliged to give up the third of the indoor meetings. Last year...
...Gymnasium will be put out during the Christmas recess but will be eight laps to the mile instead of six, as last year. This change is made necessary by complaints which have been made to the effect that the noise of the men running was apt to distract the attention of men at work in the Physical Laboratory...