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...While no definite steps have yet been taken toward the arrangement of a return dual track meet between Yale and Harvard and the English universities, Oxford and Cambridge, it seems almost certain that the American universities will have an opportunity to retrieve next spring the defeat which they suffered in England last year. The Yale and Harvard undergraduate managements are now in communication on the subject, and it is probable that a challenge will soon be sent, as the initiative must be taken by Harvard and Yale, the defeated contestants. The meet would of course be held on this side...
...Harvard Religious Union. Business meeting, followed by an address: Certain Types of Worship. Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham. Phillips Brooks House...
...considered. When we add the 7835 seats sold to them, we have 16,100 persons who desire seats between the goal lines. As there are in the neighborhood of 14,000 such seats on both sides of the field, it may readily be seen that hundreds of people are certain to be disappointed. The seats for season ticket holders were drawn by lot on a system which had my approval and no preference was given to graduates or undergraduates. The fifth group of the first table received their tickets by lot, giving preference to the members of the Graduates' Athletic...
...sale of so large a number of special seats to players, coaches and others constitutes an abuse for which the students and graduates are largely responsible. Men who have played upon the teams are considered to have earned certain rights and privileges, which the management is expected to grant without question. Both students and graduates have acquiesced for years in this, and having acquiesced in it, many of them have acquired the habit of procuring good tickets through their friends among the players and coaches instead of taking their chances with the other students and graduates. It seems only fair...
...number of the Monthly which came out yesterday begins with a most interesting article by Professor Hollis on "The Moral Aspect of College Sports." "The politics, the heavy physical strain, and the distractions of certain sports seem to outweigh, in many minds," says Professor Hollis in this article, "the positive good that springs from them. This prejudice is, doubtless, based upon the abuses of ten or fifteen years back, when athletics had run mad. Things have changed, however, and the old influences have disappeared. Many practices once thought legitimate have been given up as leading to bad sport, and college...