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Dickinson College Men's Gymnastics Team
1890
*Photograph courtesy of the Dickinson College
Archives
Participants:
Herbert Westwood
Henry
Budd
(Unknown)
Cornelius J.
Prettyman
Van Pierce Northrup
This photograph was taken in 1890 of the five men who participated
on the men's gymnastics squad. Extensive research failed, sadly, to
identify the fifth man. The four remaining participants reside out of the state,
as did many of Dickinson's students at the turn of the century. Westwood, the
man at the top of the pyramid, hailed from Camden, New Jersey and was a freshman
at the time the photograph was taken. He was a member of the Belles Lettres
Society, one of the first social organizations at the College. It has since been
disbanded. Henry Budd hailed from the great state of Delaware, and was in
his third year at the college. He was the President of the College YMCA, to
which all members of the gymnastics team belonged. Cornelius Prettyman,
standing bottom left, was a junior who came from Upper Fairmount, Maryland. He
and his younger brother Virgil attended the college at the same time for two
years. He was the Vice President of his class, as well as a member of the Beta
Theta Pi fraternity. His athleticism went beyond the gymnasium, for he was
a member of Dickinson's varsity tennis team, which at the time was only one of
three varsity sports, alongside baseball and football which the school
supported. The final member of the group was sophomore Van Pierce Northrup
from Hurlock, Maryland. He was a member of the varsity football team who
must have made an immediate impact for he was listed as a starter. He, as well
as Westwood, was a member of Belles Lettres.
The gymnastics club, as well as
some other lesser known clubs, like the hunting club, the boating club, the
camping club, the bicycle club, a tug of war club, and even two different eating
clubs, were active on the campus and were recognized in the 1890 edition of the
yearbook Microcosm as sports offered at Dickinson.
Sources:
Dickinson College Microcosm, 1890 and 1891
All sources, research information, and
knowledge found in Dickinson College May Morris Room.
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