Word: gymnastics
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Pope had a walk over in the heavy weight sparring and the light weight was won by Sexton, '92, over Bennett '91. Thus the sophomores and juniors having each won six first prizes and five second were tied for the banner. The judges awarded the honor of college gymnast to F. A. De la Barre '90. The meeting as a whole was one of the most successful ever held at Amherst...
...chiefly to benefit the men who have hitherto belonged to no organization, to have such men feel some interest in their exercise so that they will work more regularly, that the squads have been undertaken again. No man need feel that he is too poor a gymnast to enroll his name. Every man will have an equal chance. What is wanted now is that men should go to the gymnasium and put down their names for some one of the squads and then leaders can be selected and assigned. Leaders need not be great experts themselves if they are only...
...Harvard Faculty Committee is beginning to see the folly of its raid against playing with professionals. After having given athletics a good set-back by driving off James Robinson, they deprived the nine of a trainer. Yet they have a professional gymnast in charge of the gymnasium, a professional instructor in sparring and fencing, and allow the nine to play under professional rules, with a professional ball and under professional umpires. [N. Y. Clipper...
...that it has seemed necessary beforehand to inspect the building and methods of Harvard's Gymnasium, or to secure the advice or active cooperation of its well known director. The latest instance of this fact is Cornell, whose trustees are considering the question of making a thorough course of gymnastic instruction a part of the college curriculum. At a recent meeting, we learn from the Era, "two systems were chiefly considered, the one now in vogue at Harvard, where the department is placed entirely in charge of a medical man, who is assisted by a small corps of instructors...
...great part to either poor gymnasia or inefficient instructors. His account of an average gymnasium is very amusing and well worth reading. He also deprecates "the lack of a suitable man, with sufficient authority, at the head of the department - a man who is a college graduate, a practical gymnast, and an educated physician...