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...high schools, such a course is exceedingly disadvantageous. If they attend the ordinary high school of this country, they may get an exceedingly good education, but not one of the Harvard kind. If they are entered in a school which happens to teach the Harvard subjects, they cannot wait until the last year before making up their minds to come here, but must spend their whole course working up the necessary studies...
Dean Briggs emphasizes the harmony existing between the Faculty and undergraduate members of the Committee. He points out that the inclination to turn sport into work is a fault which must be watched, yet it is deemed necessary by many graduates and undergraduates who cannot bear to see their College go down to defeat. Opposed to this body are the Corporation, the President, the Faculty, parents and a number of "thoughtful people who have watched with apprehension athletic sport overgrowing scholarship in what were designed to be institutions of learning...
...sports to the neglect of their studies. It prevents men from competing in three different seasons, not in three different sports. One of the peculiar results is that a person can in one year be a member of the football, the baseball and the track teams, whereas he cannot compete in football, swimming and track in the same College year. If there is any benefit obtained I should like very much to have it pointed out. Almost without exception the minor sports require only an hour a day of practice. Let me assure those who framed this rule, that this...
...opinion, if we do not like the game as it is played today, the best thing to do is to see if we cannot better it. There is no use in quitting because the game doesn't suit us and we are getting beaten. There is a Rules Committee on basketball, just as there is on football, which meets every year to discuss how the game could be improved. There are five on the Committee and last year it stood three to two in favor of dribbling. Everybody who plays the game admits that that is more than half...
...importance of constitutional representative government cannot be, over-looked, for where the people decide whether there shall be war or not, they hesitate to incur one of which they will have to bear the burdens. In addition to this we have a growing sense of the uselessness...