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...jumping squad begins exercise on the chest weights. This is followed by jumping, vaulting and light dumb-bell exercise. As a large development of muscle is not conducive to lightness and speed, none of the exercises are long continued. They are expected to give the men suppleness; and without strict training to prepare them to get into racing condition as soon as the track opens in the spring. The sharp corners of the running track in the gymnasium do not allow very fast work, but every day the spinters cover three or four laps at a good rate of speed...
...strict accordance with this theory should a dinner culminate with chimpanzee for dessert, or is the descent of men ordinarily more than sufficiently illustrated at the end of a club dinner...
Holt, '86, will continue his running during the summer, without however keeping in strict training...
...little more than a week distant. This game takes place on our own grounds, and eighty-nine should put forth every effort to win. Yale has this year an unexceptionally strong freshman nine, if we may judge from the accounts which come from New Haven; but by keeping in strict training, and by practicing steadily, there is no reason why our freshmen should not make things ???ively for their opponents. But training and practice must be attended to if eighty-nine wishes to make a good showing in this first game. The nine as a whole must play more together...
...Harvard nine will, without doubt, be one of the strongest their freshmen have ever put in the field. Their battery will be little inferior to that of the university team's, and a large number of men are trying for every place in the field, while all are in strict training." We do not doubt that our freshman nine will relish the interesting information about themselves which the News here gives, but we trust they will not put too much confidence in it. The experience of former freshman nines offers a dismal warning to '89, and we feel sure that...