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...altogether possible, and that any action that cripples intercollegiate sports will cripple the so-called "intramural" as well. We hear a great deal about ideal athletic conditions in England and we are asked to imitate their system of general participation. This we are trying to do; but once abolish the intercollegiate element and what will become of the sport as a whole...
...those men in whom the injudicious restraint of athletics now lies, or if they are affected in any way by the existence of conditions which breed all over the country a broadcast belittlement of the University, why in the name of conscience and common sense don't they either abolish absolutely or let alone...
...into the situation which at the best has been a hodge-podge mess of pottage, better to stand aside in dignified silence and watch. Then if football or any other sport does not by itself earn the justification of its independent existence, by all means step in and instantly abolish. Don't hang another millstone around its neck and say, "Linger on." That is if winning or losing makes any difference. W. PETDO
...attitude taken by swimmers is the same as that taken by all other participants in winter sports--that it is an injustice to abolish all forms of intercollegiate winter sport in order to save the schedules of fall and spring sports in their entirety. The proposed "reform" appears to their minds more punitive than corrective...
...argument in abolishing it,--that something must be done to appease the Faculty,--seems absurd. It is a poor policy to abolish hockey to preserve the schedules of the major teams intact, especially when the question at hand rose wholly from the major sports. It is urged that the hockey team plays too many games away from Cambridge. If this is so, it will be avoided next year by the erection of a new rink in Boston, where all games may be held, and which will greatly reduce the number of trips taken by the team at present...