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...varsity teams in the same year. This would bring two good results. It certainly would tend to reduce undue exactions of athletics upon the time and energy of individuals, and it would increase the general utility of athletics. The more men who can be induced to train for athletic contest, the better will be the University. Now if the chances of making 'varsity teams were increased, the number of candidates would increase in much the same proportion. Moreover, this regulation would have no small results if the past is to be taken as an indication of the future...
...Worcester Athletic Club also will have a meeting in March, at which there is to be an open team race for the championship of New England. It is not probable that Harvard will enter a team, as the rules of competition which will govern the contest, and the size of the track, are not altogether satisfactory...
...faculty at Cornell are making an effort to forbid any university team entering a contest outside of Ithaca...
Plans are being made for a field meeting Chicago at which all the Western colleges may contest for the championship of the West...
...indifference while they take such a course. Harvard's prospects in baseball have not been so gloomy for years as they are at present. Part of the responsibility for the reputation which Harvard shall gain in the coming year rests upon the freshmen. The nine is almost certain to contest with nines from other colleges, and it will probably meet Yale. The standing of the freshman nine in relation to the other class nines may be of little account, but its standing in relation to the freshman nines of other institutions is by no means of small importance...