Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . nnotremember that I ever stepped be-yond the middle campus till Burdetteof 80, in our senior year, establisheda ground for pitching quoits just eastof Chemistry Hall. We played ballon the middle campus, batting southfrom a point midway between Chem-istry Hall and the chapel. Ourgames were played either on the oldAdelaide avenue grounds or on theMesser street grounds. Even such advantages were good when compared withthe provisions made for gymnasium work. I dontknow how to describe our gymnasium. It was a vaga-bond gym
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . nnotremember that I ever stepped be-yond the middle campus till Burdetteof 80, in our senior year, establisheda ground for pitching quoits just eastof Chemistry Hall. We played ballon the middle campus, batting southfrom a point midway between Chem-istry Hall and the chapel. Ourgames were played either on the oldAdelaide avenue grounds or on theMesser street grounds. Even such advantages were good when compared withthe provisions made for gymnasium work. I dontknow how to describe our gymnasium. It was a vaga-bond gymnasium to start with, claiming the samesheltering roof (it was always located next the roof) onlytill rent was due, then gathering its belongings into amoving wagon and moving on. The gymnasium wasownerless — the students had bought a good part of theapparatus ; the corporation were supposed to be the pow-er that controlled, and it bore the name of the man whocared for it. We had to work to keep warm and we hadgood ventilation—a surplus, in fact. Still for a couple of. Memories of Brown 363 years the winters gymnasium work was followed in thespring by such creditable victories on the ball-field as to\\2irrdint 2i propter hoc conclusion. The secret of our success, though, in 78 and 79 wasthat we had good clubs in the city with which to playpractice games. General Dennis organized the RhodeIslands on the old Adelaide avenue ground in 75 or 76,and with his club the university played many in case of accident to any of his players he filled hisnine from our nine. So for several years the universitymen had good training. Later the League Club was or-ganized on the Messer-street ground and with that fa-mous team we played. In the years 76 to 78 some unusually good playerscame in from the Friends School and from other places,so that in y^ our university nine made a very good show-ing in the college games and in 79 we won the champion-ship. That year we had an infield that
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