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...trying to worry themselves back into decent physical condition. With some it was a dismal failure, and injuries, contracted through their neglect, at the outset almost destroyed their usefulness in the important games that followed. A light but steady practice in the gymnasium during the winter, and some regular out-door training in the spring and summer, is what our players must come to if Harvard is to gain the supremacy on the foot ball field next fall. The lacrosse team, the nine, and class crews, give the men ample facilities to improve their condition next spring; and the captain...
Pach in person will take all out-door groups. The in-door groups will be taken by his assistant...
...field allotted to its use, and would have received pecuniary support, which is the willing and necessary accompaniment of a popular sport. The opponent of tennis further states that to those who do not play the game it seems to be the most utterly imbecile and childish of all out-door sports. This does not appear to us strictly correct. Lawn tennis poorly played may be uninteresting, but not childish; for even in the early stages of learning, when the art of the players is but little advanced, we who are not intimately acquainted with the game can nevertheless...
...disapproved of and felt no interest in. But if the Advocate is referring to outsiders, what is the statement meant to prove? For surely it cannot be denied that to people who do not themselves play tennis, the game seems the most utterly imbecile and childish of all out-door sports...
...correspondent of the Columbia Spectator says, in the issue of January 27, that a heavy snow-storm has precluded all possibility of out-door exercise here at present...