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...Harvard spectators, and particularly the undergraduates, we urge them to go to the game with the firm intention of helping the team to win,- in other words, to cheer them on, especially if they happen to be behind. Experience shows that strong, organized cheering has, without "rattling" the opposing team in the least, helped immeasurably to win games, and this is what is needed this afternoon...
...Weld showed much improvement over the form shown in their former race with the B. A. A. They had a firm, hard catch and rowed well together. Dobyns at stroke rowed a very heady race, keeping the stroke high, but at the same time making it strong and long. Blake and Coleman also rowed a particularly good race. The B. A. A. was somewhat slow on the shoot, but rowed together well and finished strong...
...excellent suggestion to set aside a part of the field for cricket, and it is extremely advisable that those interested in the game petition the Athletic Committee for some such arrangement. There is plenty of room on the field for a crease which, if it were on firm, level ground, could be taken care of with but little trouble and expense. As soon as the authorities realize how much the game would improve the present opportunities for physical training in the University, if encouraged and helped along a little, it will probably obtain more of the recognition which it deserves...
...chief function of the Athlelic Committee is to exercise guidance over contests in the field. By guidance is not meant an unfriendly interference with the games, but a kindly aid, with a firm development of athletics for the future. In the past, athletics have led to vicious practices and guidance became necessary...
Today's CRIMSON contains a communication concerning Tuesday's election of directors. Most people would agree that the directors should be "firm and subservient" but the writer is either prejudiced or uninformed when he says that the "waiters cannot, on account of their position, act independently." Some of this year's board most ready to advocate change and most openly "unsubservient" have been waiters. There has never been any strong feeling of common interest or any solid organization of the men who wait at the Foxcroft Club and there never will be unless it is produced artificially by such senseless...