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...treasury, in fact, is barely free from debt and that is all. Therefore to buy boats is all out of the question. Of course Harvard understands how much benefit she receives from training received at Exeter in the different branches of athletics. A majority of the Exeter graduates enter Harvard, thus whatever proficiency is acquired while at Exeter is indirectly a benefit to Harvard. With this fact in view we would call the attention of the Harvard Boat Club to our need and suggest the advisability of presenting us with boats. We understand that the club has several old boats...
Peace of Princeton, captain of last year's foot-ball team, and who it was rumored was to enter the Harvard Law School, is president of the Princeton Base-Ball Association this year...
...athletic contests afford an excellent chance for the specialist to display his abilities, and only specialists enter them. In their case the entire energy of the system has been concentrated on the development of special powers, and every thing else is set aside as useless. This is the great objection to athletic exercises as they are at present conducted. Symmetry of development is never thought of, nor is it ever acquired by exclusive reliance upon any of our popular sports. Indeed, we would venture to select from any group of recognized athletes the oarsmen, the ball-players and the gymnasts...
...legitimate field-sports, such as foot-ball and base-ball. Both of these games supply a practice that can never be gained by any system of work in the gymnasium. And, besides, open air life is most beneficial. Although it is undoubtedly true that the spirit of rivalry does enter to a great extent in these athletic sports, and possibly produces some unfortunate results, still it seems to us impossible to supply any substitute that will arouse the same enthusiasm. This spirit of rivalry is the same spirit that enters into all the matters of life and is a most...
Whether or not the above laudable views will result disastrously to the competitions in which Harvard is to enter, as has been predicted by the foretellers, is a question which, however satisfactorily settled to the minds of the wiseacres, can only be settled after a fair and lengthy trial of the new system. Sufficient to say that Harvard does not intend to withdraw her teams from the field, and hopes to present a satisfactory showing wherever gentlemanly prowess is called into competition. - [Spirit of the Times...