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...preparatory schools will prove of value in entering the field ready for play instead of being obliged to develop a team from crude material. In every college and school there are those who, not interested in base-ball and other sports, are attracted by lacrosse. As matters now look, Harvard will have a strong team this year, and will endeavor to maintain its superiority in the college association. The colleges that will probably be represented in the association are Amherst, College of the City of New York, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton and Yale. The graduate players will, in turn, no doubt...
...meetings with the special committee of the corporation, composed of Mr. John Quincy Adams and Mr. Alexander Agassiz, has discussed the subject of a trainer. It is proposed to appoint an assistant to Dr. Sargent, who shall make the scientific study of sports his specialty, and shall look after the men engaged particularly in field sports, and shall be a regular part of the college, not hired by separate men. By a thorough investigation of these particular branches of athletics he will be much better prepared, it is said, than a regular trainer, whose place he will amply fill...
...Varsity Eleven will probably play a practice game Saturday afternoon with a team composed of graduates: Those who were present at the game with the graduates last fall will look for a lively contest. Let us all turn out and encourage the team...
...majority of the classes have met and organized. The Athletic Association has commenced work, and the fall games will be held on the Manhattan Athletic Grounds next Saturday, when we may look for a "busting of records." In this instance the "busting" will probably be at the wrong end, as the number of our athletes is not astonishingly large, and what few we have are for the most part astonishingly slow. The mile-walk will probably be the most interesting event of the day, owing to the variety of gaits which will be displayed. One freshman avows his intention...
...importance and influence of college journalism in student life, especially of our literary weeklies and fortnightlies. As once former Harvard papers had an important influence in introducing Holmes, Lowell and other men of literary pre-eminence to the business of literature, so now at Harvard and elsewhere we may look to see a similar result again appearing from the influence of college journalism and future celebrities graduating from these practical schools of letters...