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...officers of the Athletic Association have under contemplation the substitution of the running high jump for the standing high jump in the contest for general excellence at the winter meeting...
...last two days to be "ladies' days." The programme for the three days will be the same as of last year with the addition on the second day of the running broad jump. A general excellence prize will be given, but the events to be included in this contest are not yet decided on. A prize for general excellence in sparring has also been offered by a gentleman connected with the university...
...subject and who reports that he "has consulted with some of the leading professors as to the effect of athletics on men's mental training, and invariably he has been told that it is highly beneficial. With the exception of a few days before the one or two great contests, they say that during the whole period of training the athletic men display wonderful quickness in apprehension, and work harder than the majority of their fellows who have nothing but their studies to take their time. Moreover, it gives vent, or rather direction, to that superabundance of animal spirits...
...management, and hearty support seem already promised, while lack of honest work and desire for success has never been the fault of Harvard teams. And should our game with Yale next fall determine the championship as it did this fall we can have the satisfaction of knowing that the contest will be before thousands of friends who will not fail to appreciate a gallant struggle whatever may be the issue. With so much at stake it behooves every foot-ball man to keep in as perfect condition as possible, not only during the winter months, but in the summer vacation...
...such considerations are beside the point at issue - as to the advisability of narrowing the college league. The Athenoeum mistakes when it says a trifle savagely and bitterly : "To discover which crowd can beat is the sole object, and if in the course of a few years the contest narrows down to two or three institutions, let all the rest drop cut; they are wholly unnecessary." The real object of the league, on the contrary, we think, is to afford chance for enjoyable sport to the colleges engaged, and to keep alive and stimulate an interest in athletics. If perpetual...