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...disadvantage in her contests with other colleges. But what has seemed to many radically wrong in our sports, I think, has been their growing exclusiveness. Of course the highest excellence in all sports is a thing we all approve of and desire to see attained at Harvard; but when almost all athletic exercises become narrowed down to so few men, and only men of naturally fine athletic abilities, or those who are willing to devote a very considerable proportion of their time to training and practice, enter our sports, and men who have only ordinary strength and ability...
...members of some one of the crews, is, we think, well worthy of careful consideration. Rowing is certainly an exercise that many would gladly participate in if only an opportunity were offered; as it is now there is little if any chance for its practice among us. It is almost certain that no private enterprise will afford this chance; and therefore it would seem to devolve upon the boat club almost as a duty to provide means for this admirable recreation and exercise...
...recent games of the Manhattan Athletic Club in New York, L. E. Myers participated, but he won no prize except in the consolation race, being so heavily handicapped as to render it almost an impossibility for him to beat the other contestants. Myers was entered for a 440 yards' run, handicap, and he was the only man who toed the scratch, the competitor that stood nearest to him having a start of 25 yards, and the one furthest from him having a start of 60 yards. There were 11 entries, and when the signal go was given Myers started like...
...chief advantages enjoyed by students at Harvard is the wide range of study and research afforded by its advanced elective system. Here almost any subject, with its various modifications and departments, can be taken up, and under professors who have made life-long studies of their respective and special branches, pursued to the very limits of human knowledge. There are courses so admirably arranged and instructed that one, after spending the ordinary college course of four years in the pursuit of a special line of knowledge, finally appreciates his own incapacity, in the contemplation of the immensity and scope...
Tompkins, of the Yale eleven, is said to be satisfied with the material on hand for making a good eleven, but the losses that the college has sustained in the departure of Badger, Knapp, Lyman, Cuyler, Storrs and Eaton are almost irreparable. It may be a matter of interest to know that Waldron, '81, and Hutchinson, '80, are expected to go into the law school this year, and will probably resume their old positions on the nine. - [Globe...