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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winner in both football and track, third in cross country, and fifth in touch football, Kirkland House is leading in the fall point standing of the Houses, according to figures released by Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of intra-mural athletics...
Total number of participants in the six House sports was 777, more than 300 more than in the year 1933-34, the previous record. Fall track, an innovation in the intra-mural program, drew 56 men, which more than compensated for the number engaged in House rowing...
...announcement of a $200,000 athletic endowment fund by President Conant of Harvard has set a precedent that will reverberate on the intercollegiate horizon for some time to come. Designed to free Varsity and intra-mural sports forever from the somewhat hazardous support rendered by the box-office sports the latest addition to the Cambridge institution's bulwark against the taint of professionalism has set her on a pinnacle of amateurism reached by only a few hinterland teachers' colleges...
With this in mind the picture of Harvard in the years hence is pleasing to consider, for with intra-mural and intercollegiate sports alike looking to the University for support and direction, and with the academic garden flowering with endowments to attract to the University leading men in the educational field, both professors and students, Harvard should be an even more well rounded institution than it is today. But in the meantime it is to be hoped that the athletic endowment continues to grow, and President Conant has contributed to that end by putting the need for athletic endowment...
...body. He is always cooperative in giving any information which the Council seeks in its investigations. The result of this cooperation has been eminently satisfactory, far more satisfactory than if the Council had preserved an attitude of magnificent if puerile independence. For example, a report of last year on intra-mural athletics resulted, within a month, in a complete change in the managing of these contests--a change from which we hope you will profit when you become members of the Houses. The Tutoring School report of last year opened the eyes of many members of the faculty...