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...services to the government as soldier or sailor. But, where it is possible, let him make the effort to do what he can; however little, and thus show that he is alive to the situation. The Liberty Loan is the first big American war enterprise--he cannot afford to sit back placidly, and shift this financial burden onto the shoulders of his fellow-citizens...
...only sports beside football to afford a profit at Princeton were baseball and basketball. Hockey was a paying activity in 1914, but in the season of 1915-16 a deficit of $641 is recorded. Together with hockey, track, rowing, most of the minor sports and all freshman athletics showed losses. The receipts and expenditures from these sports, however, varied little from previous years. The only exceptions to this were track, which had an increase in expenses over revenue amounting to about $1,000, and soccer which also showed an augmented deficit...
...training is not a complete equivalent to athletics, and even if it were, there are a great many students who are not in the R. O. T. C. and are hence deprived of all organized sports. Some form of intercollegiate contests ought therefore to be devised, something which would afford the exercise so many need, and yet would not demand unqualified attention on the part of the participants. We have had this sort of athletics before in the Leiter Cup series. If they could be organized now on a larger scale, they would fill a very big gap in University...
...favor of it. A great deal of importance is attached to intercollegiate contests; so much that the players devote all their attention and interest to them. At times they become almost professional, with an object of such paramount importance as military preparation in the field, no one can afford to devote to them all that they demand...
...Provision is being made for the subsistence of those Harvard students who could not otherwise afford to enter or remain in the Corps...