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...that they are thoroughly trained. Then the team, after it has been chosen, will select its own captain. The scheme has much to recommend it. The advantages to the candidates in having the personal supervision and advice of Mr. Sears are apparent. There is always, necessarily, more or less time lost in getting the candidates for the freshman football team into regular training, and at this season of the year, when each day of practice is so valuable, every effort should be made to increase the chances which the freshmen have for defeating Yale '92. Much will be done...
Davis, '91, and Greenfield, '92, rode a mile on the bicycle Saturday on the Holmes field track in 2.56 2-5, one second less than Harvard record...
AVERAGES OF PLAYERS WHO HAVE PLAYED IN LESS THAN FOUR GAMES.Linn...
...recent years increasing attention has been continually directed to the importance of physical culture among young men in college. There is reason to believe that if the importance of this subject has not been exaggerated, at least the methods employed for encouraging it have been more or less mistaken. It is too often the case that at the beginning of a session young men are animated for a week or two by a very lively zeal to participate in athletic sports which in a brief period wears itself out; after which the gymnasium is for the most part deserted. What...
Another evil attends the practice, now become so common, of intercollegiate matches. As these contests approach, there is more or less distraction of the minds of the students from their proper pursuits, and for the time being a more or less serious neglect of study. This is an evil inevitable while the present system is maintained, and is of sufficient magnitude to justify, in the opinion of the undersigned, an absolute prohibition of intercollegiate games altogether...