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...hundred years. The pitcher is to be awarded each year to the class which has in that year won the greatest number of races on the Charles, no student rowing in more than one race. Thus no class would be likely to win which had not trained ten or fifteen crews. A genuine competition for this pitcher, with half the college in training, would furnish the livliest feature of the college sports. Fortunately, lack of ground, which hampers the extension of the other sports, would not be felt here; the Charles is large enough...
...departments has never been equalled since." The doctor is satisfied with the physical improvement of the Harvard athletes. He has made over 550 examinations so far this year, and will make about 200 more before July. Many of the men take two examinations and some take three. It takes fifteen minutes to measure each man, and about fifteen minutes more to make out the exercise book which tells them what apparatus to use. In 1880 the development stood on an average at about...
...consequent improved chances for tennis brings the matter more vividly to our attention. Not only do little 'shavers,' both white and black, beset anyone who carries a racquet in his hand from the moment he leaves his door until he commences to play, but burly youths of fifteen or sixteen seem to find the business profitable and come shambling into the college yard in hopes of getting a chance at "shacking." "Shackers" are a necessary evil to the easy enjoyment of tennis, but it does not seem necessary that they should be permitted to disturb the quiet of the yard...
...faculty, if it may be so called, consists of a provost, ten fellows, a headmaster and undermaster, and "not more" than two chaplains. The boys must be between twelve and fifteen, who apply for admittance, but need not be natives of England to gain the privileges of the school ; although a foreigner is not well received. As the dormitory room is limited, a large number of the boys are obliged to board in the village, and hence are called "oppidans," probably from "oppidum," a town, the expenses of an "oppidan," amounting to over $1,000. From a classical school exclusively...
...lacrosse and cricket, on the east and west ends of Jarvis field, in order to get their position settled. In the fall, new tennis courts, behind Divinity Hall and in other places will be provided, but for the present spring the association will be confined to some ten or fifteen scattered courts on Holmes and Jarvis field. The situation of each one of these will shortly be published, and they will be marked in a few days. Courts on that part of Jarvis field occupied by the lacrosse will be laid out soon, and they may be played on until...