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...hearty support of the College. Tonight is one of the very best chances to examine how much the undergraduates care for the game. We believe that it is a sport to be encouraged, that the comparatively few chances to see University hockey games in the past have tended to retard its growth; but that an enthusiastic attendance at tonight's game will not only greatly encourage the team at a decisive moment but will be a great factor toward the successful maintenance of an excellent winter sport...
...will doubtless be impossible to bring this organization at once into a position as strong as that of the Cosmopolitan Club of Cornell. The inertia of a new idea will operate to retard its progress, as well as the absorption of the natural leaders of such a move by other interests. But, if started, this society should not occupy the position of numerous other bodies which have monthly smokers as the only excuse for their existence. It should be so conducted that newly-arrived foreigners will feel that an active interest is felt in them by more than the College...
...second in a race for four-oar shells. By entering the University second crew instead of a four-oar this year a strong eight-oar crew, in addition to the Freshmen, will be kept intact for the University eight to row against after the Cornell race. This will somewhat retard the selection of the University four-oar to race Yale in the New London Regatta, but the members of the four-oar and the two substitutes who go to New London will be selected from the University second eight and will therefore be in good condition throughout the season...
Fifteen dormitory crews have now been formed, and are practicing daily on the river under the direction of Coaches Rice and Stephenson. The crews are seriously handicapped in their work by a lack of shells, but on the whole are improving rapidly. The new men, while they retard somewhat the development of uniformity in the boats are greatly aided by the example of the experienced men, and are learning rapidly. In some cases the new crews are showing signs of unusual ability...
...same as those of the rest of the country, but somewhat harder owing to the fact that here the separation between man and man socially is greater than in other parts of the country, and whatever hinders the approach of one man's heart to another's, tends to retard Christian civilization. A second tendency which adds to the difficulty of problems in the East is the mad rush of city life which is more acute here than in the West. A third problem, one which has grown up within the last twenty years, is the class of young...