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...that each year when the time arrives for the most important University games to be played, when reputation for the College is to be made, the Harvard players are crippled and of little or no avail? Why is it necessary to use up the team in practice and by contests with unimportant teams just before the great games of the year? Of course I realize that thorough and systematic hard practice is necessary, but there is a limit to human endurance, and some discretion should be used, that the men shall be serviceable when the most important games occur...
...football game a week from tomorrow,- the first contest under the new agreement,- a large number of graduates of the schools, now in Harvard, should be present and make it known that they heartily approve the resumption of athletic contests between the old rivals...
...following men will contest in the final round of the tournament...
There was no contest in the pole vault, as the number of entries was not sufficient. One pleasant feature of the games was the despatch and punctuality with which they were conducted...
...main part in the work of preparation for the important forensic contest with Princeton does not end, as the University at large has appeared to think in past years, with the fixture of these preliminary details. For these arrangements are but preliminaries. The success of the trial debate and the possibility of choosing the best men in the University depends on the individuals. Every man who will have a spare hour or two between now and November 10, should study the question for debate, and, whether he thinks he has any ability in public speaking or not, should contest...