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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...available for next year. The fact remains, however, that the athletes in College who could do much to make the basketball team successful, do not take enough interest in the sport to go out for the team, and there is no immediate prospect of their changing their attitude. The comparison with the recent unsuccessful seasons in football is not particularly convincing. Although the team lost to Yale for several years, there was still a great deal of interest and enthusiasm, and a majority of the games was always won. In basketball there are many other defeats than those by Yale...
...them. In the bottoms of many of the lockers the dust of ages has accumulated. Many of the machines for pulling weights are out of order, there are not enough mats to go around, the dressing rooms are usually uncomfortably overheated, and there are countless other disadvantages. In comparison with the equipment of other colleges, or plant is medieval in every respect...
...annual financial statement of the Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association, published in the adjoining column, shows numerous variations from the table of the preceding year which is published for purposes of comparison. The first item, "Care of Buildings and Grounds," varies little from year to year. Expenses on the general account are larger because of certain increases in salary. Permanent improvements include chiefly a baseball diamond in the southwest corner of Soldiers Field and a railway for hauling up the floats and runways at both the Newell and Weld boathouses...
...dark, unsanitary and improperly ventilated; the lockers themselves are minute and crowded together without regard to the comfort or health of their users. No wonder candidates for the team prefer to wait for warmer weather when they can use the Locker Building on Soldiers Field, quite palatial in comparison to the Gymnasium...
...advise such men to consult the present occupants of these dormitories, but to save them the trouble we can tell them beforehand just what the Seniors will urge them to do. Anyone who has lived in this delightful environment will say that the discomforts are very slight in comparison with the many obvious advantages, and that a Senior year spent in the Yard will never be regretted even by the most fastidious...