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Last year 188 men responded to the first call and over 300 different men were under Mr. Lathrop's care at one time or another during the spring. The immediate object of the winter training is to fit men for the indoor games which are held in Boston. These games being handicap, one man has as good a chance of winning a prize as another...
...Annual, which appeared in 1819. But in the "Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the University in Cambridge," issued in 1823, it is stated that commencement was on the last Wednesday in August, that the summer vacation lasted a little over four weeks from commencement, and that the winter vacation was for seven weeks from the fourt Friday in December. In the spring two weeks were given, beginning with the third Friday in May. In 1825 the catalogue stated that the academic year was divided into three terms and three vacations. The first vacation was of two weeks from...
...four days in each term was allowed when the students could be away from college. In that year also provision was made whereby meritorious students whose circumstances required it might at the discretion of the faculty be absent for a limited time, not exceeding thirteen weeks including the winter vacation, for the purpose of keeping school. In 1852, the commencement day was changed to the third Wednesday in July, and the winter vacation made seven instead of six weeks. The winter vacation was reduced to four weeks in 1865 and the summer one increased to eight...
...membership of the Sparring Club has reached the limit of 50. The club includes nearly all the good boxers in college and several of the men are already training for coming winter bouts. Mr. J. R. Daielson has been engaged as boxing master...
...about to close for the Christmas recess, and men will be leaving Cambridge for all parts of the country, it will be well to take extra preoaution that no contagious disease be brought back here from other places. There is a possibility of an epidemic of small-pox this winter and it is very important that every man here should be vaccinated immediately if he has not been vaccinated within two or three years. It is pretty generally accepted among medical men that vaccination does not render a man proof against the disease for more than five years...