Word: interring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost universal undergraduate support and a closely knit organization are the most prominent characteristics of Princeton intra-mural athletics when contrasted with the present House sports program at Harvard. When a Princeton man gives up a weekend in New York in order to play in an inter club hockey game, as has actually been known to happen, it shows that there is an enthusiasm present which the House system has so far been unable to arouse...
...small size of the clubs makes inter-club football impracticable but touch football is well organized, a complete pamphlet of special tough rules for the association being published by the governing board. During the winter basketball, squash, and ping pong are carried on while inter-club hockey in the Hobey Baker rink has proved to be the most popular. Swimming is limited to three meets in both the club and dormitory league in which all members enter contestants at once, while in Wrestling and Boxing there is an open University meet as at Harvard...
...preserve the balance of the H.A.A.'s budget, the University has supplied some six thousand dollars to meet the expenses of the new program of rigid organization for intra-mural inter-house athletics. Since the University already supplies about twenty-five thousand dollars annually to the support of the Freshman compulsory exercises, it is now inaugurating nothing new, but merely extending its policy of paying for the beneficial gymnastics of the team athletes...
...reform lies in the setting up of House Athletic Secretaries in each of the seven Houses and in Dudley Hall. These secretaries, together with one Master chosen by the House Masters as a body, the Director of Athletics, and the Intra-Mural Athletic Director will form an Inter-House Athletic Council. It is significant that the House Athletic Secretaries are to be Seniors in their respective Houses, that they are to be paid for their services, and that they are to have two paid assistant secretaries out of the Junior Class. The provision for a competition between the two assistants...
...Inter-varsity rowing, in the thoughts of all true Britishers, begins and ends before the U. S. rowing season starts-with "The Boat Race" between Oxford (Dark Blue) and Cambridge (Light Blue), over four miles of the Thames between Putney Bridge and Mortlake Brewery. Almost as much of a tradition as the boat race itself is its result. Before last week's race, Cambridge had won 13 in a row, lost only one since the War. After a false start, the race started out as usual last week: Cambridge, in the Surrey-side lane, pulled around the first curve...