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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college branches of their sports are concerned. The interesting fact, though, is not that they admitted the organization of these sports to be loose, but that they complained of its being too loose. For I think that it may safely be said that as a rule the English student places relatively little store by efficient management and well developed organization in his sports. In rugby, for example, matches of one kind or another start almost with the season, and from then on the participants are far more concerned with playing the game than with learning how to play...
...Want Amateur Coaching at Harvard!"--Lionel de Jersey Harvard Student at Cambridge answers this important question from the point of view of the English coaching system...
...whatever name it is called, the feeling exists. It is more than the attractive power of football, for a dozen teams can without contradiction proclaim themselves superior to the two that meet in the Stadium tomorrow; it is far stronger than mere intercollegiate rivalry, for this year no student mass-meetings are going into pre-game spasms of false ecstasy over the teams. Instead, the atmosphere is saner, more healthful, more desirable for everybody. The relations of the two colleges have passed their childhood, and are becoming mature...
...present", said Professor Black yesterday, "each country collects its own statistics according to its own ideas, which makes it very difficult for a student of foreign problems to put them together and reach any true conclusions. Our job is to make them readily available...
This lament of Mr. Snedder is somewhat a propose in consideration of the fact that in many colleges the educational atmosphere is effectively diffused under the pressure of extra-curricular functions. However, his desire to concentrate the scope of the student, especially that of men interested in pre-professional work falls very short of helping the situation. Under the present conditions the efforts of most college men are allowed to follow one subject to the exclusion of many others that undoubtedly would be a broadening influence. The loss like a professional school the college remains, the more chance there...