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...extension of lacrosse to institutions where, up to the present, it has not been played as an intercollegiate or recognized sport was given great impetus at the fifteenth annual meeting of the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse League, which was held recently in New York. The meeting was attended by representatives of the following members of the League: Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Stevens, Lehigh, Swarthmore, Hobart and Johns Hopkins...
...other great impetus to form character is athletics. If I had my way, I would place athletics on an equal basis with scholarship in every school and college in the country. I would require the teachers of all branches of athletics to be men of the same high moral character as the teachers of Intellectual subjects, and would place the two groups on an absolute equality in salary and social standing. In other words, athletics would be made as much a part of the curriculum of every school and college as mathematics, etc. And extra-curriculum activities, which...
...change is due to a feeling that has long existed in the school that some form of reorganization was vitally necessary if the school was to continue. Added impetus was given to the feeling this year because of the great increase in size. Where the school has never before had more than 230 men registered, this year there are 400 students; nearly double the amount of the usual enrolment...
Harvard's share, which has been estimated at five million dollars, is the largest unrestricted gift this University has ever received. That it comes as a surprise enhances its value; it will give new impetus to the Endowment Fund...
...increase in the number of additional subscriptions that have been received has been one of the most gratifying results of the Endowment Fund Campaign. Many of the alumni have doubled their subscriptions, and in two instances have contributed an additional amount far in excess of their original subscriptions. This impetus has been attributed mainly to the activity of the class committees in an endeavor to gain a one hundred per cent response from their members...