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...University have reconsidered the stand which they took last week and have voted to place track on an equal footing with baseball and crow by re-establishing a training table for that sport, is decidedly satisfactory to those who were anxious to see a real handicap removed from a team of proven ability. This reversal of opinion may be attributed in no small degree to efforts of undergraduates, who, feeling keenly that an essential spirit of unity in the team was being seriously endangered, brought the authorities to a realization of the track team's plight by a clear presentation...
...Committee also authorized a baseball game to be played at Soldiers Field on May 30, between the second teams of the University and Yale. As the Yale athletic authorities have not been approached on this subject, the game cannot be announced as definite. A contest with Dean on May 20 was added to the second team schedule, which makes the complete list of games as follows...
...military system is adopted in this country, the University instruction must inevitably become a part of it. It may be Congress will rehabilitate the National Guard, in which case the University could support an artillery batallion to which men, ambitious to receive military training may belong, and after a team of service, and a further term of study, might receive commissions in the reserve...
Fairness is a good policy even in college journalism. The unnamed editorial writer in the CRIMSON seems to sneer at the bad fortune with which the University debating teams have met. It would be a safe wager that this writer has never attempted to participate in a debate, and he probably did not even attend the debate which brought on his laughable and amusing attempt at a display of immature wit. Does he know how much work a debate entails? Is it any worse to lose a debate than to be defeated in an athletic contest? Would he likewise suggest...
...besides debating, but I venture to say that the editorial writer who found amusement in practising his original brand of sarcasm on debating, would not dare to do the same in regard to athletics. It might be good training for him to come out and try for the debating team next year. He would at least learn the wisdom of thinking before writing. He might come out of the debating trials a sadder but wiser man. We make no promises. J. J. TUTUN '20, Of the University Debating Team...