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...would undoubtedly be a good thing to improve the game itself, but as conditions are at present we doubt if this improvement would increase the popularity of the sport to any substantial degree. The writer of the second communication claims that if the Committee abolishes basketball as an intercollegiate sport, it should be consistent and abolish it entirely. We can not agree with this point of view. If there are men who wish to play the game they should certainly have an opportunity to do so, but there ought not to be a team representing the University in a sport...
...opinion, if we do not like the game as it is played today, the best thing to do is to see if we cannot better it. There is no use in quitting because the game doesn't suit us and we are getting beaten. There is a Rules Committee on basketball, just as there is on football, which meets every year to discuss how the game could be improved. There are five on the Committee and last year it stood three to two in favor of dribbling. Everybody who plays the game admits that that is more than half...
Opinions differ as to the extent of physical injury involved in too much training, but the weight of authority appears to be that if a man is enough of an athlete to play on a number of teams, it is a good thing for him to be in training all year. Even if he were not physically able to do this, no harm would be done, for the captains of the major teams to which he belonged would see to it that he did not hurt himself by participation in any of the winter sports...
...feature of the season will be the establishment of football relations with Princeton by a game between the Freshman teams. It was apparently impracticable to arrange a game for the University elevens, but the next best thing was done...
...wish to remind the Juniors that the applications for rooms in Hollis, Holworthy and Stoughton must be handed in before 1 o'clock today. It is the custom in Cambridge to put things off until the very last minute, the result in this instance being that very near few men have sent in their applications. The members of the class should realize that the Corporation came very near not allowing Senior preference this year, and to ensure the continuance of the custom it is absolutely necessary that the Juniors show their desire to avail themselves of the opportunity. Many...