Word: train
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...part in them will be able to compete. There is now every opportunity to practise, and in the next four or five weeks we hope to see many availing themselves of it. The Athletic Association will see that a hammer and shot are provided for those who wish to train for these events. They will be placed under the Society Building, and can be found there any afternoon...
CANDIDATES for the Freshman Crew now train as follows: rise at 7 A. M., and walk until 7.40; row 800 strokes at 2.30 P. M.; at 4.30 run half an hour...
...definitely committed to the support of the new scheme are Wesleyan and Bowdoin, which have wisely decided to compete for the four-oared prize of the N. A. A. O., rather than row a special race with one another as previously arranged. Wesleyan already has fifteen man in training. At Princeton and Rutgers there is considerable talk of entering for the same prize, and another possible competitor is the University of Virginia, provided its four-oared crew should win the race at Lynchburg on the last Friday of June. Should the University Eight of Harvard announce their intention to enter...
...whom would have beaten that time. Tell me, is it that Harvard men take no interest in athletic games, or that they are lazy? For your papers are always full of sporting news, and would lead a stranger to suppose that the chief aim of your University was to train the body...
...have received, too late for publication, a letter from a gentleman in '82 who complains of the hasty selection of twelve men to train for the Freshman crew. He suggests, as all would be applicants cannot row on the hydraulic machines, that they be set to work on the weights in the Gymnasium, and the selection be made after the real merits of the men are known. We are not familiar with all the facts in the case, but we do not believe any applicant will be prevented from trying for the crew...