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...make this list full, and to give a correct idea of the good which the gymnasium has done, it is necessary for all who can, to be examined and to have their records tablulated. This list will not only be of interest to the members of the University, but will go out to show the public in what condition the physical life of Harvard is. It will also be to the world at large, a stronger plea for college athletics and the gymnasium work necessarily attendant, than an athletic victory...
...that their impatience is justifiable. Nevertheless we would urge the necessity of caution in criticizing the action of the faculty. The hints dropped by the professors mentioned above have been very vague and have come mostly as warning, so too much reliance must not be placed upon them. To correct several reports which have appeared in the college press, we would say that the resolutions are still under the faculty is consideration, that undoubtedly they will be adopted with modifications, and that, more than this, no one outside of the faculty has any authority...
...Harvard who have previously attended some other college, about fifty men assembled in Sever Hall, Saturday afternoon. Mr. F. B. Vrooman was chosen chairman and Mr. E. B. Delabarre, secretary. Mr. Delabarre then stated the object of the movement, saying that the main purpose was to correct wrong impressions of Harvard at the colleges and to testify to the success of the present system...
...whole college world may be reached. Just complaint has been made by the defenders of Harvard methods that the attacks upon her system are based in many instances, and especially in the college press, upon a misrepresentation or misunderstanding of the real state of things. It is to correct these mistakes that the present movement has been started. A meeting of all the men interested in this work has been called for Saturday. It is hoped that all will attend in order that a good impetus may be given. It is proposed to appoint a committee to draw up resolutions...
...taking no exercise, 14 in number, had an average of 67.8 per cent.; and the forty-four men who had attended no intercollegiate contests in Cambridge had a mark of 74.9 per cent. The records from which these marks were computed were incomplete, but the averages are probably almost correct for the year...