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Today the provisional list for the mid-year examination has been made public. It is a good thing that the announcement of these tests comes so long a time in advances. Like the wind that precedes the storms they serve as a warning; they give us a chance to re-inforce our intellectual foundation. The mid-years are, next to the finals, the worst event of a college year, but they are a trial that must be gone through with, So the main thing to do is to get ready. If we start now and brush up the dusty spots...
Therefore as we put in our Coop books the dates for these day of morning and plan just how long a period we will have for revelry, let us gaze into the dark future and prepare. The prospect is not too cheering, yet every cloud has a silver lining and in the case of the mid-years the bright spots come from the being ready weeks ahead...
...other hand we are quite ready to admit that the enthusiasm with which the public has taken upon our games has swept us along involuntarily into mistaken ways. The number of errors in the system is probably great, but we cannot wipe them all out at once. Our revolution must be a gradual one if we are to retain athletics on any extensive scale. The National Association, however, has now publicly recognized these faults and it proposes to deal with these at its next session. It will pass resolutions favoring, first, that there be no more pre-season coaching; second...
...hold that these resolutions will straightway make college athletics spotless. Far from it. But they will give us a good start on a good road. The fact that the National Association is tending toward the views of this whom we regarded as mere theorists a few years ago would lead us to believe no small changes is coming. The above three changes would not be opposed by the members of teams themselves. Their effect will take away none of the enjoyment or the value of sport. They will simply remove collegiate athletics a little farther from the realms of professionalism...
Today should be a gala day in Cambridge; it marks the date of the first Mahan revival. It is now that the leader of the famous 41-0 team comes back to his old B gladden the hearts of all Harvard men. Since Mahan has left us there been a considerable void in University teams a void that may never be filled. He was the greatest back that ever wore the crimson on Soldier. Field, at least as far back as any of us can remember. Now before he bucks the Hindenburg line, he has decided to practice...