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...tank and a number of baths of every description. There is also room for a base ball cage should it be decided to put one in. In the sub-cellar the bowling alleys, store rooms, and heating apparatus will be placed. The second floor which is reached by a broad stairway commencing near the entrance contains lockers, a director's room and quarters for the crew, nine and eleven. The gymnasium hall occupies the top floor; this contains over one thousand square feet of floor space and is lighted directly from the roof which is made almost entirely of glass...
...candidates for the Princeton Mott Haven team have been practicing since the holidays. Carey, '93, and Vredenburg, '92, will enter for the 100 and 200 yards dash; Dohm '90, for the 440 yards dash, half mile run and broad jump: Roddy '91, for half mile run and broad jump; Crane '93, and Wood-bridge, '93, for the mile run; Janeway '90, and Black '91 for throwing the hammer and putting the shot; Henken '93, for the high jump...
...come to any college exclusively for athletics, just so soon is it clear that athletics have assumed too prominent a place in the life of that college. Such has been the case with Harvard and now has come the time for reform. Her athletics have been established on too broad a basis. She has had too many games to play, and her team too much work to do. The interest of the college in athietics has been weakened by being divided among too many events. The time has come for some restriction...
...right or at least will soon be so. Our present position in athletics is the result of forcing athletics into a position of false importance. The faculty, the alumni and the [students are awakening to this, and the tendency of the faculty is "to bring about that spirit of broad culture in athletics which is characteristic of English university life, where athletics supplement the true purposes and enjoyments of education...
...paltry data of three years? What good will it do us to pick out of a hundred years the three in which accident gave Yale a greater proportional increase than Harvard and argue from this trifle that Harvard is going to the dogs? Why, if we take a broad view of the history of the two colleges, these three years only appear like an exception to illustrate the rule...