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...reported that a company is to be formed from some of the larger private schools in Boston, such as Hopkinson's and Noble's to march in the procession tomorrow night. Their uniform is to be a white gown, with a tall "plug" hat in imitation of the collegians...
...Charles Follen, a German refugee, was its director. He was also professor in German in the college. He met an untimely death by fire in 1840. After 1840 the use of the Delta as a gymnasium was discontinued and gave away to its occupation by votaries of the larger college sports. In 1864, October 12, the "University Base Ball Club" was formed. We are informed that "in the spring of 1863 the Cambridge City Government granted the use of part of the common near the Washington Elm for practice ground" and that "this was used until the spring...
...each freshman class used, on entering, to studiously keep away from the gymnasium, either from bashfulness or because the men failed to appreciate its advantages, but this order of things has now become changed, as is shown by a glance at the apparatus on any afternoon. In fact, the larger amount of exercise seems to be done by the two lower classes. This is a most gratifying result, and the more so because there is no system of compulsory gymnastics in vogue among us, as is the case at many other colleges. With the perfect appliances and convenient arrangements...
...subject of college athletics has, within the past year, attracted to itself unusual attention. Among several of the older and larger colleges and universities, the question has arisen and been earnestly discussed, whether the time has not now come for the adoption of some uniform regulations that shall control the contests so frequently recurring between the athletic clubs of the different colleges. One of these games-foot-ball-it is charged, has degenerated into methods bordering on the barbarous and brutal, while others have engrossed so much of the attention of the players as seriously to interfere with the higher...
Then let this fall be made remarkable by a larger number of scratch games than ever, and let the numerous societies and club-tables get their men to work as soon as possible, for the season is fast slipping by, and it will be but a short time before the coming of our gentle Cambridge winter drives us into the gymnasium for existence...