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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...
...Princeton system is organized independent of varsity sports under the impressive title of the Intra-mural Athletic Association. Within the association the eighteen clubs are the basis for competition among Juniors and Seniors, while the Sophomores, who do not join clubs until Spring, are organized according to dormitories. Each club appoints a sports director and in each dormitory there is a Sophomore appointed by the central committee. Three of these sophomores are elected in their Junior year to the central committee and remain on it during their Senior year with the addition of another member of their class. Thus...
...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...
...braced by the much-needed tonic of well organized sports, while it will be possible to give remuncrative work to a few members of each House. At the same time the vital interests of the Houses will be consulted by having the Masters voice their approval of the intra-mural managers who are selected. In this way no House will be consigned to athletic oblivion through the appointment of incompetent or unpopular managers...
...compulsory athletic fee. The University has accomplished this by tripling the amount of money spent for House athletics, and has contributed the necessary extra cash to the H.A.A. With these administrative reforms to strengthen a House Plan beginning to develop definite characteristics and spirit in each House, intra-mural athletics promise to be considerably more attractive...