Papers of the University of Virginia Gymnasium Committee, 1885-1890

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Papers of the University of Virginia Gymnasium Committee, 1885-1890

1885-1890

https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/archival/items/u3955058

The collection contains a Gymnastic Club notebook kept by Francis Perry Dunnington recording "actions of Visitors, Faculty & Committee" and expenditures; and a report by Dunnington for the Committee on poor conditions and management of the gymnasium. Correspondence regarding the establishment and regulation of intercollegiate athletic contests includes letters from T.R. Ball at Johns Hopkins, E[dward] Hitchcock at Amherst, Jasper Goodwin at Columbia, and C.G. Rockwood, Jr., at Princeton. James B. Baker, Secretary of the University of Virginia Faculty is also a correspondent. The collection also contains printed athletic regulations from Harvard and Princeton, and two bills to the University of Virginia for athletic equipment.

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