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...number of Harvard men, anxious to arouse a greater interest in foot ball among the preparatory schools in Boston and its vicinity and thus secure better candidates for the college team, have taken an important step toward this end. A committee consisting of J. H. Sears (chairman), A. P. Butler, F. C. Woodman, C. A. Porter, F. S. Fiske, and R. S. Hale (secretary) have donated a cup, to be called the Boston School football Challenge Cup. The conditions governing the cup provide that schools within fifteen miles of Boston, and such others as the committee may admit...
...game with each school to be played on grounds mutually agreed on. The championship is to be decided by the greatest number of games won. A schedule has been arranged, and the first game will be played Oct. 19. There is a prospect of some very interesting contests among the teams of the Association...
...important a department of athletics entirely out of the hands of the students and place it absolutely under the control of a committee of graduates, must necessarily result in diminishing the interest of the students, for whom, primarily, the crew is supposed to be conducted. This loss of interest among the undergraduates is greatly to be deplored for many reasons, and to persevere in such a course can only result in the utter demoralization of Havard athletics. When the Harvard system of athletics becomes so unwieldy that the under graduates cannot manage it for themselves, it is time that some...
...student body of the University may fairly be said to sand pledged for the maintenance of good order. There are no restrictive rules such as formerly used to weigh so heavily that it may have seemed a pleasure to break them. There is no excessive feeling of patriotism among the classes struggling to manifest itself. On the contrary, the scenes of "Bloody Monday" have none of that universality and spontaneity which characterized former celebrations of the entry of a new class, and which could be explained, perhaps by the fact that hazing seemed to be looked upon by the students...
...recent years increasing attention has been continually directed to the importance of physical culture among young men in college. There is reason to believe that if the importance of this subject has not been exaggerated, at least the methods employed for encouraging it have been more or less mistaken. It is too often the case that at the beginning of a session young men are animated for a week or two by a very lively zeal to participate in athletic sports which in a brief period wears itself out; after which the gymnasium is for the most part deserted. What...