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...majority of our undergraduates. It has, however, seemed best to lay the matter before the entire student body, for final action; and for this purpose a mass meeting of the students has been called by the authors of the petition for next Monday evening. There is, of course, no need to point out the importance of a full attendance at this meeting. If the petition is to have any weight at all, it will be because it voices the sentiment of the college. For this reason, therefore, we urge every man who takes any interest in Harvard athletics...
...recent lecture delivered in Brooklyn, Dr. Sargent spoke of the progress that the Germans, French and Scots are making in athletic sports and gymnastic exercises. "We need in America," said the doctor, "a happy combination of all the systems of athletic development as practiced in these countries-the German for strength, the English and Scotch for sport, and the French for grace. The Western States adopt for the most part the German method, the Eastern and Middle States hail with delight the English athletic games and sports, while in New England the French calisthenics are popular. Each system is good...
Another evil in athletics, which is the result of competition, is said to be unequal development produced by training for specialities. In answer to this we need only look at the prominent athletes in the different branches. They are almost without exception healthy, and well developed men. Athletes are beginning to see that the best training for a specialty is the thorough development of the whole body, and not the abnormal development of particular muscles. When this idea has become generally accepted, as it seems probable under Dr. Sargent's teaching that it will, then this objection to specialities...
...confess to feeling strongly on this subject as a business man. We need, quite as much as professional men, the help and discipline which study alone can give. All buying and selling to get gain is debasing in its tendency, and especially so in this great city, where every year completion becomes keener and more pitiless. Only constant effort will enable a man to continue his reading and to keep his mind and tastes in such cultivation that he will find in such cultivation that he will find himself en rapport with men of letters. It is too often...
Thus there is urgent need of our universities educating their young men on this subject, and showing them the need of action and how to act. But there is also need of care lest they become scornful of universal suffrage. For to deal with all the important problems of the present day, such as the relations of labor and capital, is a calling...