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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seems as though Yale and Princeton have, for once, set aside the "Harvard first" policy. This is all the more to be regretted in view of the recent strong agitation in favor of tennis as a major sport at Harvard. That the Student Council should summarily reject the plan does not suggest that they considered the matter too carefully. Constituted, as that body is, with a large proportion of its members being the Captains and Managers of the present major sports, it is not hard to observe their psychological effect on the body as a whole. We may suppose that...
...rapid growth of tennis in the past decades, but nothing could bring it home to Harvard men morely clearly than the fact that the Fall University Tournament had about twice the number of entries that the National Singles Championship had last year. Such a body as the Student Council of a great University ought to be thoroughly conversant with such matters, and that it was not so informed seems unusual. The arguments for raising tennis to a University sport are several and to the point. There are some against it. Where the preponderance of fact lies is indicated...
After the open practice today before the student-body, the football men will leave town for the Essex Country Club, where they will rest until their return on Friday evening...
Tomorrow afternoon the whole student body will form as before outside of Hollis Hall at 3.30 sharp and march to Soldiers Field, headed by the University Band. Here they will watch the last open practice before the game and give the team a final send-off with cheers and songs...
...selection of Harvard University Press Books in English Literature and Belles-Lettres" is the title of the latest pamphlet issued by the Press and listing and describing all the Harvard publications which appeal to the student of belles-letters, folklore, poetry and drama. The newest of these books is "Courtly Love in Chaucer and Gower,' by W. G. Dodd. Professor of English at Florida State College for Women...