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...suburb of Brookline has twice as many "H" men in the University as the whole of the United States west of the Alleghanies. Of the 51 men in College who have gained their letter in one of the five major sports, the State of Massachusetts is represented by 38, or nearly 80 percent. These are two noteworthy facts revealed through statistics compiled by the CRIMSON to discover the geographical distribution of University athletes...
...Thames Rowing Club of Putney-on-the-Thames, England, has, via a letter to President Lowell, extended the privileges of its organization to members of the University who happen to be in England and feel the loss of the rowing facilities of Weld or Newell, in Cambridge on-the-Charles. The letter to President Lowell follows...
...enormous number must soon be found or made, if our country is to put her utmost into this war, and we earnestly believe she is. Where are our officers coming from? Secretary Baker who surely ought to be in a place to know answers this query plainly in his letter to President Lowell. They are coming from just such groups of men as that which has been training here for many months. The finishing touches which a regular training will put on them is bound to produce the kind of officer our country is looking for. Harvard has the French...
...about the sanctity of the Sabbath. But youth will be served. And men who may not find recreation around Cambridge will seek it outside, at the beaches and amusement parks, where religion is not especially fostered. It is not a question of observing the Sabbath according to the strict letter, or of neglecting it in tennis and rowing. It is a question of neglecting it in tennis and rowing, or of contemning it in less natural amusements...
President Wilson in a letter to Lawrence Perry, of the New York Evening Post, urges the continuation of college athletics as an aid to fitting men for national service. In accordance with this suggestion, intercollegiate football will probably be a feature of the fall season of sports at many colleges in the country. The schedules already arranged, with some modifications, will be carried out by the greater number of colleges affiliated with the American Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee, in the opinion of the members of the Central Board on Officials as voiced Saturday evening at their meeting at the Hotel...