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...Races of a mile, two and possibly three miles will now be favored in preference to the old-fashioned four-mile racing at New London. Yale will probably use the Housatonic course this year, which will be christened in a two-mile race with Pennsylvania...
...need of a more general participation in athletics by undergraduates than resulted under the system in force throughout the first half of the college year, they have changed their attitude. The general opinion at the other two universities is now in favor of a renewal of the old type of competition on a less pretentious scale than formerly...
Therefore, all we ask of the Athletic Committee is the restoration of the indispensable--the factor bringing success in our spring athletics. We do not petition for a blind return to the old evils. Let highly-paid coaches, extensive advertising, and the general commercialization of amateur athletics lie buried as they now are by the present war. A little longer and they may be stifled for good and all. A return to intercollegiate games does not mean a return to evils. A return to Intercollegiates does mean athletic attainment. It is for this...
When the Freshman seven meets the Yale 1921 hockey team today, the old battle is again resumed between Cambridge and New Haven. We have had only one glimpse of that always interesting dual contest so far this year, and that was when the Freshman football team was persuaded that Yale was superior last fall. That defeat is not a stain to be wiped out, but it remains a disappointment which we should like to forget through the result of today's game. The war has made us fairly liberal in athletics, and we now maintain publicly that we want...
What we need is the old intercollegiate system with its evils taken away. Intramural sport should be encouraged, but it can not be the basis of the system; the example of a University team is the ideal for which every man strives. But the old evils must be abolished; we do not wish to get back into the rut in which we have been running for the last decade. The money question has been the greatest drawback, and next to it, the elaborate system of training, both of which over-emphasize the importance of athletics. These dangers are gone...