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Another reputed evil of athletics is their supposed tendency to draw men away from the lecture room. That this irregularity of attendance exists only to a surprisingly small degree is proved by the investigation of the committee. They found that in 1886-87 the excess of the average number of absences of the men engaged in athletics above the average of their class was-for the Mott Haven team, 1; the crew, nine, and cricket team, 5; the leading tennis players, 7, and the eleven, 8. On the other hand the lacrosse team had a record of six less absences...
...committee found that "the total time necessary for practice by the members of the nine, eleven and crew amounted to from one and three-fourths to three hours per day. The training moreover, is not so severe as to make the time devoted to study of less value to members of teams than to other students. The only time, therefore, which can reasonably be considered wasted is that consumed in travelling by the teams which play outside of Cambridge...
...committee have taken special pains to ascertain the number of men who go with the teams to other colleges. They found that more than half of the students never leave Cambridge for this purpose, "and that on the average all absences from a college exercise from this cause amount to slightly more than one each year for each student...
...That a return should now be threatened from the present system which those college officers best qualified to judge have pronounced a success, to the old one that has been tried and found wanting; that Harvard should deliberately retrace its steps, and from the university revert to the kindergarten, is a disappointment and a humiliation...
...McKenzie may be found at Wadsworth House 1 every week-day from...