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...bottom premise of all this reasoning that is at fault. College athletic sport as stimulated and maintained by inter-collegiate contests is not confined to a few; and such sport so sustained brings "compensating advantages" for all the real evils incurred, if not for all the imaginary ones...
...during the winter months that the student is most likely to neglect proper exercise, while in the spring and summer the inducements to out-of-door sport are many and strong. The prospect of inter-collegiate games in the spring fills the college gymnasium during the winter. When warm weather comes the crews and nines, selected from many candidates, take to the water or go on the diamond. But this occurs only after long months of excellent daily exercise by hundreds of college students continued through the very season when exercise is most irksome. Remove the inter-collegiate game...
...moderate work in the gymnasium daily. The present interest in class contests, small as it is, is chiefly owing to the training they give to men who are possible candidates for the 'Varsity teams or crews. Hence the interest in them would dwindle to almost nothing, were the inter-collegiate contests abolished or materially decreased in number. With no stimulus to regular exercise, spasmodic attempts at physical culture would supersede the present general, systematic, and in the main, judicious work continued through several months. "Time, money and energy," are certainly expended; but are there no returns? These quantities, too, have...
...trained in mind and body, - mentally and physically cultured, standing often-times near the top of his class, thoroughly prepared for life's struggles. After the necessary restrictions have been made against extremes, those colleges graduate the most men of the last class, which encourages a due allowance of inter-collegiate rivalry. For only by such a course can college athletics be sustained, and college students, as a mass, induced to undertake regular and systematic exercise...
...Subjects: 1. What is the Rosetta Stone and what are the Results gained from a Study of it. 2. The Argument for Vivisection. 3. Causes of Medieval and Recent Judaeophobia. 4. The Distinction between a Play and a Novel. 5. A Dialogue upon Tobacco. 6. Abuses in Inter-Collegiate Athletic Associations. 7. Sea-side Hotels. 8. Why do so many college men choose the Law? 9. Should there be a fence round Jarvis field? 10. The Tewksbury Almshouse...