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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After forty years of untiring service in a field of vital importance, the promotion of health and strength in thousands of students, Dr. Sargent announces his intention to retire from the active direction of the Hemenway Gymnasium. It is easy to understand Dr. Sargent's desire to be relieved after a lifetime of devoted work, but it is difficult to be reconciled to his going. To every student who has come in contact with him, Dr. Sargent is as real and genial a friend as he is a helpful physical advisor. Outside the limits of Cambridge Dr. Sargent is almost...
...athletics are concerned we are amply protected. In the first place, in Article 2, Rule 8, of the Athletic Committee's Regulation of Athletic Sports, it is stated clearly that "Without the permission of the Committee no student shall represent the University in more than two of the three periods of sport in any one year.' Exceptions are at times made, but they are very rare, and the man's academic standing, physical fitness, and his family's wishes are carefully considered by the Athletic Committee...
...time when the fever for the regulation of undergraduate participation in extra-curriculum activities has enveloped both Yale and Princeton, it is well that the problem be discussed with respect to conditions at the University. On the surface it seems desirable that as many students as possible should hold offices, that the burden of the activities should not fall on a few shoulders, and that the entire time of a few office holders should not be given for the benefit of the remainder of the student body. But it is doubtful whether the artificial method in vogue at New Haven...
Harvard, however, does not choose a small group to act as trustees for the student body. Officers of every description are widely distributed throughout the four classes. The intensity of competition for all important positions automatically impose the necessary restrictions. For instance, Yale forbids--and Princeton proposes to--one man from holding two major sport managerships. Rarely, if ever, has there been a two "H" manager. The results of artificially limiting activities will be a decrease in competition, tending to lower the standards of the positions...
...another Mr. Moore has shown that in athletics there is no need for further prohibitions. Sufficient checks already are at hand in the Athletic Committee and the Student Council. No undergraduate Lysander will arise. The "New Haven Plan" finds no application here...