Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have decided to change the day of the hare and hound runs from Tuesday to Wednesday of each week? It has always been customary to have the runs on Tuesday afternoons when there are fewest recitations and no football games to deter anyone from joining. Last year the sport was so popular as to call for two runs a week; and Tuesday and Thursday afternoons were given up to them. Why not have two runs a week again this season on every pleasant Tuesday and Friday afternoon? By this method every one in college who cares anything about this form...
...interfere with the practice of either the 'varsity or the freshman eleven. The advantages of such play, on the other hand, are quite apparent. By it some excellent latent material is almost sure to be brought out. The plan will, also, keep active the interest in football as a sport in itself, and will thus promote the interests of the 'varsity eleven. To those who have participated in table matches, an agitation of the subject cannot but be welcome. The rest of the students must learn by experience the pleasures and advantages of these table matches. There is certainly...
...vigorous recreation. For those who hope to become members of the Mott Haven team as long-distance runners, no better opportunity for increasing their powers of endurance could be afforded them. The interest evinced in hare and hounds during the past three years is sufficient proof that the exhilarating sport has obtained a firm foothold here, and, with a proper display of energy on the part of the athletic management, the first run ought to be held early next week...
...reply to the taunts of a large band of sophomores which congregated in front of Grays and Matthews last night, a number of freshmen assembled to prove the superiority of '92 by cheering. Finally, as this sport became rather monotonous, and as honors in yelling the class cry were evenly divided, the sophomores resolved to put matters to a final test by a rush. In the meantime the freshmen had collected in force and not only drove the sophomores back but carried on decidedly vigorous offensive tactics. The sophomores, surprised by this burst of energy, fell back and reformed their...
...oarsmen, but the standard of rowing, like everything else, is continually improving, and to keep up with this advance a man must not only follow the improvements most carefully, but it is so necessary for him to test each of them practically, for rowing, far more than any other sport is learned by the sense of "feeling" rather than by observation only, and no man can successfully teach it unless he has practiced what he teaches...