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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Thirty-four per cent, of Harvard University is engaged in athletic sports. At Yale, though official figures are not available, an unofficial estimate would total about the same--more than thirty per cent. "Not near enough," snaps the advocate of general athletics and a game for every...
...University baseball team will battle with a Cuban nine representing the University of Havana on April 19, according to the revised schedule given out last night by Manager Hibbard. The Brown game has been shifted to June 3 because of the Intercollegiates which are to be held in the Stadium on May 31. No game is to be played with the Boston Braves as was previously announced, and the second Pennsylvania game has been cancelled. The final schedule includes 23 contests, two of which will not be played if the University nine succeeds in winning two straight games each from...
Emphasis, it would seem, may thus be centered upon just what the desire of our collegiate authorities is: do they wish their representative teams to play the game up to the hilt, or to play bumble puppy? There was a time when Harvard's elevens and crews under nondescript coaching systems lost to Yale with doleful frequency. Later, some serious attention was devoted to the conduct of athletics at Cambridge with a resultant systemization and rigidity of control. Ergo a lessening percentage of defeats on field, diamond, stream, etc. Which epoch was more beneficial in its effects upon the pride...
Personally, then, I may say that I have gained at least one great conviction in the years that I have followed intercollegiate athletics: a game that is worth playing at all is worth playing well. All youthful habits and tendencies are, of course, formative. This is recognized in the classroom where ill-ordered, half-hearted inefficient instruction is not tolerated, and where various measures are effective whereby students shall be inspired to a high sense of their opportunities as well as to lofty ideals concerning their duty to their college and their duty to themselves. In principle, at least...
...obligations are we not operating to defeat the primary purposes of essential university work as already set forth? In other words, does not a boy, whether he be a Varsity man or a member of a class or whatever team, receive moral and physical benefit from any game in which he may play in proportion as he is taught and inspired to play that game to the limit of his ability. Therein, I should say, we exemplify the American university spirit, or, to put it more broadly, the national spirit...