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...have heard much talk of late about the overwhelming importance which intercollegiate athletics have come to assume in the college world. I am myself one of those who feel that the apotheosis of the athlete has gone too far; he has been set on too high a pedestal. The fault is not with the young men themselves. Indeed, what impresses me the most is, that in spite of all this publicity and laudation they should bear themselves with such becoming and attractive modesty. How is it possible for any young man to see things in their true proportions, to feel...
...handicaps for the invitation events of the winter meeting as fixed by the official handicapper, are given below. The open invitation events are putting the shot and running high jump...
...RUNNING HIGH JUMP...
...Newton High School Athletic Association holds its winter meeting next week Friday at 7.30 p.m. in the Drill Hall at Newtonville. There will be four open events, the 30 yds. dash, half mile walk, potato race, 600 yds. run. The Harvard entries in the various events are: 30 yds. dash, M. G. Gonterman '96, B. C. Jutten, Gr., C. L. Smith, Jr., '97, W. R. Mansfield '97, W. A. Holt Sp., C. H. Warren '97, E. H. Clark '96; 600 yds. run, G. L. Sawyer L. S. S., J. E. Bunting L. S. S., W. H. Vincent '97; half mile...
Interest at Harvard in gymnastic exhibitions has never reached a very high pitch, for there has been much to distract it. In former years, when three winter meetings were held, at least two of them generally lost all claim to the name by coming in the early spring rather than in the winter. At that time the many forms of outdoor athletics received all the attention of the students, and the natural result was neglect of the winter meeting. The Athletic Association not long ago found itself obliged to give up the third of the indoor meetings. Last year...