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...important changes, and he had the satisfaction of seeing a marked improvement in the business of the athletic office, in the intelligence with which Harvard teams are managed, and in the success of those teams against their rivals. He worked hard and successfully to stimulate interest in athletic sport among students who need such sport for their bodily and mental health and have no thought of belonging to an organized team. In nearly all ways he left a much better athletic situation than he found. Fred Wadsworth Moore, A.B. '93, was appointed as Mr. Garcelon's successor...
...each college was no doubt in part responsible. To expect that every player in every contest will always do exactly right toward his adversary is to expect something a little beyond human nature; but in general it may be said that the games between Harvard and Yale are now among the friendliest and the cleanest, as they have long been among the most intense, of college games, and that the negotiations between Harvard and Yale about them are among the most agreeable negotiations of the college year
Last week the crews underwent the difficulties and hardships of Arctic exploration to be on the river, and the soccer squad kicked a ball among the ice sheets and mud puddles of Soldiers Field for the sake of being out-of-doors. Today the fielding candidates for the nine don the glove, and the lacrosse men assume the stick. Tomorrow, figuratively speaking, others will exert themselves in track and football...
...values. Crew and track are underestimated as a form of exercise and overestimated as a means to an "H," and the minor sports, although they open to the inexperienced an equal chance for exercise, are slighted. Of the remedies suggested to increase the practice of regular daily exercise among undergraduates, two at least are pertinent. In the first place all shall appreciate its necessity and benefits; in the second, having gained such appreciation, they shall lay aside the often founded fear of being laughed at and try their talents at an organized sport...
...benefits to both sides have long been recognized. The schools are afforded better facilities and brought into contact with the University and from this latter benefit the University also derives profit as well as from the pleasure of having the students of the schools, competitors and partisans alike, among us. The closer organization of college and school has many advantages ramifying into all parts of the system...