Word: sports
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...announcement that the Yacht Club is to challenge the Yale Yacht Club to an intercollegiate regatta next June practically means that the event will be held, there being at present a great deal of interest in this sport at Yale. The proposition to hold the regatta at Newport instead of at New London as heretofore is one which will make the conditions more acceptable to Harvard than they otherwise would be, and practically just as much so to Yale; but as the University Boat Race will not be held at New London this year and as there are comparatively...
...another proof of the glaring partiality in crimson athletics. Instances of it have cropped out many times in the history of sport at that college, particularly on the nine and crew, but of late there has been a strong feeling among the graduates and undergraduates against such treatment, for it is by this means that Harvard invariably puts into the field teams which are by no means representative. This has been the most potent cause of Harvard's failure to keep up her end with the other colleges...
When Mr. Lehmann was here last fall and saw the facilities in the University for rowing he expressed his surprise that so few should take up the sport. In the English universities a very large percentage of the students go in for rowing whether they make their college crews or not and one reason that the Cambridge and Oxford crews are so fast is that they are the pick of such large numbers of men. Every move toward introducing this condition of things at Harvard is to be welcomed as a step in the right direction...
...number of years there has been excellent material in College for this team, and Harvard has been a member of the three-cornered league with Haverford and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, cricket is a sport which ought to be fostered in the University, since it provides light, healthy exercise and does not require exceptional athletic ability. One would think that a game which has been played for so long at Cambridge and which has these advantages would not have to go to Allston and use the grounds of another club. Yet such was the case last year...
With a year's trial the nine ought to be more successful than before. The schedule is certainly an improvement over last year's because it does away with games with professional teams. Not only are such games distastful to those interested in college sport, but by leaving them out it becomes possible to play a number of colleges and schools with whom games could not otherwise be arranged...