Word: winter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that an athletic coach does, the academic interests would not be so far behind in the race. Experience seems to teach that if the undergraduate interest is turned away from athletic pursuits, it will turn toward social pursuits, at least emasculating, if not vicious. If, with the abolishment of winter sports, the interest does turn toward social things, the Faculty will find itself no better off. We may then look for rules limiting the number of times a month a man may go in town, the number of social clubs he may belong to, or the number of "Brattle Halls...
...view of the proposed abolition of winter sports, I should like to say a few words in behalf of the minor teams. Undergraduate opinion is almost unanimous in favor of maintaining the present system. If the position of the Faculty makes this impossible, the question confronts the Athletic Committee of making the compromise which will be most satisfactory to the University as a whole. They have submitted such a proposal. The question now arises: Is this the most satisfactory solution of the difficulty? Is it fair that the minor sports should bear the whole brunt of this curtailment? Hockey, basketball...
...lower than before athletics became so general? Are the athletes failing to comply with the requirements of the Office? Are their records below the general average? Is attendance at lectures, both by competitors and spectators, affected by athletics? Are marks lower during football and baseball season than during the winter months? Are the athletes falling behind in the pursuit of graduate studies their fourth year? These are a few of the questions we should like to have answered. Then and only then, will it be possible to take up more than general arguments in our efforts to show that athletic...
...action of the Athletic Committee, reported in your columns yesterday morning, there seems to be a move on foot to abolish all winter sports. Of all these sports, one of the most important is hockey. To abolish intercollegiate contests in this would be practically to do away with any interest in the sport, and would cut down the number of men playing, as there would be no call for a second team, and class teams would be made up of men now on the University squad. Hockey as a sport is one of the most exciting and probably the purest...
...continue in that form. But you cannot expect this to happen by quick action; it takes a long time for it to develop and it can only be done by gradually working the one out of the other. The main interest that draws men to these sports in the winter is the prospect of the intercollegiate games. The sports are new and they require stimulus. Hence they will cut short the only interest of the undergraduate life at that dull time of the year, and all the men who go out for hockey and basketball, most of whom...