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About twenty of the men who are trying for the Mott Haven team have been assiduously at work under Mr. Lathrop's guidance, practising running, jumping, throwing the hammer, putting the shot, etc. The track has not been in good condition, so that no very good records have been made. A top dressing of loam and cinders to the depth of an inch has been put on the track, and it will be two or three days before it will be in condition for running, and probably a fortnight before bicyclists can venture on it. Prof. Shaler says that Holmes...
Later on when the spring board was being put in position, President. Atkinson brought out the box containing the "Challenge Cup" of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association, commouly known as the Mott Haven trophy. Mr. Atkinson took out the cup, and holding it up to the gaze of the audience, made a neat speech explaining the significance of the cup, how Harvard has held it for five years in succession, and who the winners were at the last meeting; the tug-of-war team, Easton, Curtis, and Fiske, L. S. and Crane, '84; Wendell Baker, '86, 220 yards dash...
...Athletic committee that since the committee began its memorable career these noisy demonstrations have been increasing both in intensity and frequency. In 1882 there was one grand celebration in the yard, occasioned by a victory over the Yale nine at New Haven, and the winning of the Mott Haven cup on the same eventful day. But, even on this great occasion, the college exulted without firecrackers and horns; and, furthermore, this was the only celebration of the year. Now, however, a class victory is sufficient to turn the college into an uproar, and often the boom of the firecracker...
...late years, the interest in the winter meetings of the Athletic Association has been steadily on the increase. Moreover, the excellence of the work done has progressed in equalratio. To-day the annual winter meetings are very like a little Mott Haven tournament, in which the several colleges of the more important contest may be considered as represented by the various classes. In fact, these meetings have become an important factor in keeping alive class feeling. It has become the custom of most students to keep a careful record of the events won by the men of their respective classes...
...class of its size the college naturally expects,-and rightly, too,-a large number of entries. It is true that eighty-eight made a good showing at the field meetings of last fall, and that the number of its men at present working with the candidates for the Mott Haven team is gratifying; yet the college is justified in expecting each freshman class to come forward and contribute its share towards making a success of the gymnasium meeting, and this eighty-eight has not done. It must be that the old-time spirit of bashfulness still exists among our freshmen...