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This afternoon will afford the last of very few opportunities the Freshman class will have had this season to evince its interest in the score at New Haven on Saturday. Furthermore, every member of the class cannot but appreciate to a certain degree the amount of drudgery necessary to bring the team to the eve of the Yale game with only one defeat. And thirdly, the 1914 Freshman team has a high criterion to emulate: 1912 broke the long line of Freshman football defeats by Yale, 1913 proved equal to this standard, and now it remains...
...consequently sent to those men who have not yet joined reminders of this fact. It seems that thoughtlessness is probably the reason why a great many undergraduates have not become members, for it is certain that there is in the University a large number of men who can afford to do so, but who have not yet taken the trouble. The CRIMSON sincerely hopes that those who are able to join will do so at once, for no University institution deserves more generous and widespread support than does the Union...
Last year candidates for managerships collected subscriptions for the support of the various Freshman teams; the total of such subscriptions was $2,412. This policy has long been considered an evil, because of the hardships it has imposed on the many men who cannot afford to give, but who wished to support their class team...
...University crews will leave for their training quarters at Red Top next Sunday. New quarters have been provided this year through the generosity of a graduate, who has supplied funds for the construction of portable houses. This will afford the men open air sleeping accommodations. These new quarters will be across the river from the old house and above the Freshmen...
...does not appear that this prohibition should be extended, as it now it, to intramural sports. In the first instance, the rule acts as a strong incentive to better academic work, and is again justified because athletics often take more time than a man on probation can afford to spare from his studies. To men capable of playing on the major teams the fear of probation is a powerful stimulus; for men debarred on account of their studies not only miss any quantity of glory, but are not generally respected, in spite of the remark made by a contributor...