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...advice and instruction of experts. The whole subject has simply grown beyond the capacity of Faculty, students and graduates, and if athletics are to be pursued along the same line of other branches in education, that is with a view of obtaining the highest degree of excellence, institutions must employ special instructors trained for the purpose. This is a conclusion from which I should gladly escape, for it will greatly add to the difficulty and expense of keeping up an interest in athletics, but it is the natural results of a failure to adopt the intercollegiate regulations...
Harvard athletics are fighting against heavy odds, - the weather. The colleges further south have a great advantage over us in the length of the time they can employ in out-door practice. An additional fortnight of work on the diamond and the river, and even on the track makes a great deal of difference in the season's results. In base ball especially the first two weeks of out-door training are highly important in sifting out the valuable material and leaving the nine ready to begin serious work as early as possible. The teams will doubtless realize the disadvantage...
...Board of Trustees at Columbia at the last meeting gave Professor Harry T. Peck leave of absence during next November and December. He will employ the time in studying at Rome...
...faculty and alumni of Phillips Exeter have requested the students not to employ Kelly as coach. Mack probably will be engaged...
...with professionals; they have never done us any good, and no one can judge how much harm. The instructor must then be taken from the ranks of the smateurs, but in glancing over the names of the very limited number of men whom it is possible and advisable to employ, we are able to find no one who understands rowing and coaching as well as Bancroft. There are others who might fill the position but none whom we can think of who would be willing to devote his time, to become a professional teacher of rowing, even for the benefit...