Word: amherst
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Building, Boston, on February 5. The first will be with Yale, which has definitely decided to send a team, and the second with Columbia. Neither the University of Pennsylvania nor Cornell will send teams. In the meet there will also be team races between Dartmouth and Brown, and between Amherst and Williams...
Within recent years the smaller eastern colleges, such as Brown, Bowdoin, Amherst, Dartmouth, Lehigh, Wesleyan, Lafayette, Trinity and Rutgers, have made remarkable showings in their athletic contests with Yale, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Harvard. Perhaps an explanation of their uniform success can be found in the fact that all of these colleges, without an exception, require physical training of their students, exempting, however, from the gymnasium work all men on the athletic squads. The result is that many men, who would not otherwise think of doing so, come out for the various teams to escape the less exciting gymnasium exercise...
Best general references: Chautauquan, July, 1891, (articles by Professor Seelye of Amherst, Pres. Rogers of Northwestern University, Pres. Angell of University of Michigan, Professor Boyesen of Columbia, President Harper of Chicago University, and Professor Henry B. Adams of Johns Hopkins...
Henry P. Kendall '99 has been elected captain of the Amherst football team for next season. He plays left halfback...
...Jump, of Albany, N. Y., entered the Yale Divinity School last year, having graduated from Amherst. While in the latter college he was prominent as a debater...