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...College band, accompanied by about three hundred men, went in to the Park Square Station yesterday morning to meet the Nine. The players were loudly cheered when they came from the train and were carried on the shoulders of students to an omnibus outside. Here a rope was fastened to the tongue of the omnibus and the fellows took hold of it, leading the way through Boylston, Arlington and Beacon streets. At the Boston end of the Harvard Bridge the procession stopped, the Nine taking the street cars for Cambridge to get out in time for examinations. Captain Dean made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enthusiastic Reception. | 6/12/1896 | See Source »

...stretching a rope along but one side of the field an enclosure would be formed as the fence is still left standing on the other three sides. This ought to be attended to before the class games begin since the crowds will then be much larger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 10/22/1895 | See Source »

...University, who are to take part in the Henley rowing regatta. The college oarsmen were never in more fit condition and they are very sanguine of success. Several of the party were seasick during the first days of the voyage, but they soon recovered and suffered no bad effects. Rope-jumping was indulged in on the passage to give the men exercise and keep them to weight. Their meals, which were selected for them, were served in their own cabins, and, under the direction of Mr. Courtney, the coach of the crew, every precaution was taken to have them land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Oarsmen in England. | 6/6/1895 | See Source »

...sided one, and that there are not fifty others equally important, and (perhaps) equally unsatisfactory. Every bait is not for every fish. We begin by admitting the old Doctor's apothegm that Art is long; we gradually become persuaded that it is like the Irishman's rope, the other end of which was cut off. So different is Art, whose concern is with the ideal and potential, from Science, which is limited by the actual and positive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Study of Literature. | 6/23/1894 | See Source »

...heavy gymnastics a number of exercises were gone through, including running high jump, rope climbing, vaulting, spring-board jumping, ladder climbing, see-sawing and trapeze exercises. The programme ended with a very pretty exhibition of dancing steps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gymnastic Exhibition. | 5/22/1894 | See Source »

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