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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a record of five wins, five losses and two ties the Crimson soccer team finished a season of uncertainty but on the whole one of decided encouragement to future teams...
...winter season was not on the whole as successful in point of major victories as might have been hoped. It was however far form devoid of achievement in Harvard sport. The University polo trio, coming undefeated through a nine game schedule, winning the Class A league championship of Boston and the intercollegiate title for the first time, was a heraled of a new era for polo at the University. The aggregate of winter contests. including Freshman and second7CROSS COUNTRY LEADER WHO WON IN INTERCOLLEGIATES J. L. REID...
...exercise has been replaced by competitive games, and it is interesting to know that in this building these, is a very small space devoted to the old type gymnasium facilities. I doubt if there will be more than a dozen pairs of dumb bells or Indian clubs in the whole building, but in their place we shall have swimming, wrestling, boxing, fencing, basketball, indoor tennis and other competitive games which are far more stimulating and character-building to the boy and to the instructor than the methods used twenty years...
...been suggested, "why not place seniors together and develop your class as a whole at that time?" The answer here is that educationally this is inadvisable as the houses cover the period of a man's preparation for his divisional examinations at the end of the Senior Year, the climax of his scholastic career. To cut off the Senior from his tutors at the most critical time would be unwise. To transfer divisional examinations from the Senior to the Junior year would create an anti climax...
...would be extremely difficult to construct after all members of the Senior class have been split up into definite and isolated groups. A Freshman is generally eager to make friends; he enlarges his circle of acquaintance beyond that of his past schoolmates to that of his class as a whole. The Senior on the other hand, especially if he has lived with the same group for three years is not as ready to meet the boy from across the hall. He has his friends, interests, and he has divisional examinations to keep his mind occupied...