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...enter these events do not reach their limit in a month or two; it requires years of practice. This includes outdoor work in the fall and spring, and winter work in the Gymnasium. In order to excel in the jumps, pole-vault, shot, and hammer, a man should do light work during the whole College term, so that when he comes out in the spring, he will not have to start all over again but will feel perfectly at home in his event. The advantage in working at the present time is that it gives the coach an opportunity...
Theoretically, everyone agrees that American scholarship should advance to a par with that of Europe, and whenever local conditions make that possible we feel sure that the American desire to excel will not be confined to securing a balance of trade in agriculture. Practically, there are many obstacles to overcome, and these obstacles are not such as will appeal to conscientious teachers. They appreciate their first duty, and recognize the fact that scholars have no place in a country until the humdrum task of education is provided...
...final game of the interclass series will be played in the Gymnasium at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon between the Seniors and the Sophomores. Both teams play a fast game with good team work, but the Sophomores excel in passing...
Coach Crane, the first speaker, told of the excellent spirit that the team possessed, and of its wonderful latent strength. He said that in no way did Yale men excel Harvard men, and that, as we have outstripped Yale in every way except football, there is not the slightest reason why we should not beat them in that branch of sport...
...solidarity so that they can all join to work together in the things that are of most concern to the College. It is idle to expect, nor indeed would it be desirable, that there should be in Harvard a uniform level of taste and association. Some men will excel in one thing and some in another; some in things of the body, some in things of the mind; and where thousands are gathered together each will naturally find some group of specially congenial friends with whom he will form ties of peculiar social intimacy. These groups--athletic, artistic, scientific, social...