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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Colonel Higginson speaks of this gymnasium as in existence in 1830, but in 1840 it had gone. In 1843 a private gymnasium was started on Brattle street in an old building which had once been a court house. Here especial attention was given to boxing...
...college boat club was formed and in 1850 races began. It is an interesting fact in this connection that Yale's first shell was an old boat which Harvard had discarded. About this time match games in other sports were also begun...
...old gymnasium opposite Memorial Hall was built in 1860 at a cost of $9488.05. Other gymnasiums at Yale, Princeton and Amherst followed and in 1879 the present Hemenway building was erected...
Prior to this the old style of apparatus was used, made by the college carpenter and arranged any way. The hanging ropes were of tarred hemp and the man who attempted to strike the rough canvas-covered striking bag was usually content with one blow. The pulley weights were swinging iron balls, unguided by rods, which swung and banged, raising clouds of dust. After a man had grasped the cold iron handles he usually found it better to hold on than to let go. After the first few day's work the weak men were eliminated by "unnatural selection...
...French began investigations in Assyria in 1843, the English in 1845, and a society in Philadelphia has during the past six years made some valuable discoveries. In 1842 M. Botta, French consul at Mosul, was instructed by his government to make some explorations. He excavated near Nineveh an old Assyrian palace, probably built about 700 B. C. The palace has over two hundred chambers. This great discovery is exhaustively described and illustrated in five folio volumes on the subject published by the French government. Mr. Austin Henry Layard, an Englishman, took up the work at Nineveh in 1845-7. Victor...