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...cannot see why something has not been done before. The effect of skilled individual instruction in awakening interest has been made sufficiently evident in track and field athletics. It is equally necessary in indoor exercise, and there is every reason to suppose that the same good results would follow...
...skin and has on the cover "The University Track Athletic Cup." On the first page is the title and the inscription: "For the encouragement of track athletics and to foster a friendly rivalry between the students of the two universities in track and field athletics." The pages which follow contain the "deed of gift," the names of the donors, etc., and blank spaces for keeping the records of the contests...
...promoters of the Union have been much encouraged by a letter recently received from the Rev. Francis G. Peabody. Extracts from this letter follow...
...Mott Haven team, and today the activity will be increased by the arrival of the candidates for the freshman nine. The men are all going into the work with a good deal of spirit. In the class crews the enthusiasm as shown by the number of men, seems to follow a law of inverse proportion to the order of the classes. This is only natural, as the older a class gets, the better the rowing material becomes known; the new men get more and more weeded out, and the places in the boat become more settled. This decreasing ratio does...
...Free ship" method is practical and immediate. - (a) Free ships would save us $140,000,000 yearly. - (b) Would stimulate our ship yards. - (c) The example of Norway and Germany a wise one to follow. - (d) The carrying trade employs fifty times more men than the shipbuilding industry; Kelley, p. 31. - (e) With "free ships" we should rival England on the sea; Atlantic Mon., vol. 47, p. 174. - (f) Free ships would stimulate American invention, in building and handling ships...