Word: existence
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Without doubt winter sports have a right to live, and none more so than hockey. But to abolish intercollegiate contests altogether will certainly kill this game. Intracollegiate athletics cannot exist without a varsity team which the contestants hope sometime to make...
...English system of Intracollegiate athletics would not continue, or even exist, were it not that the best men of each college are continually sent up for a trial on the varsity. Their athletics would fail, in spite of the strong feeling between the colleges, were it not for these trials...
...this fairness to the minor sports? They are to be abolished, as far as intercollegiate sport is concerned, merely because they happen to come at the time when the weather conditions are such as they are fitted for. All of them are essentially winter sports and do not exist at other seasons of the year. Imagine attempting to play basketball in the spring or autumn in a hot gymnasium. Hockey can only exist at the present time when there is ice, and even with a rink, nobody would want to play it in warm weather. These different forms of athletics...
...meantime we must make the most of our growing opportunities. We must not neglect a single chance to demonstrate that athletics can and must exist in every possible form. Today the second string baseball material is not doing its share. The University second baseball team, now that the Leiter Cup Series has been crowded out, affords the only opportunity, outside of a few interclass games, for the man of average ability to play the "national game." But for some unexplainable reason the team is not being supported. An opportunity to play baseball is being wasted, while we compromise ourselves...
...dormitories are no longer the centre of underclass life, and cannot be made the centre by locating in them the few men who enter each year from the West, in sending out information about Harvard, the University should at least mention the fact that private dormitories and recoming houses exist. This could be done without advertising the private dormitories individually...