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...recent Yale alumni dinner President Porter said: "As far as Yale is concerned athletics are doing well; they do not divert the interest of the students nor do they diminish the zeal for culture as a whole. The tone of the students is improved by the slight diversion of attention which they cause. I take the liberty of explaining why we are reticent in making arrangements in regard to athletics with the other colleges. It is the result of long experience. The question has been talked over more than ten years, and upon it President Eliot and myself have bestowed...
...meeting was a fairly successful one, although, owing to the small number of the entries there was less competition for each event than was desirable. It is hoped that the next meetings may be better contested throughout. More interest ought to be shown by those who enter the events and less indifference felt toward the issue of the meetings. The success of the meetings, of course, depends to a great extent on the number of entries, and it is most unpleasant to see the success of the meetings jeopardized by any lack of such enthusiasm as ought to be shown...
What the causes are for this thin showing of entries is a matter of conjecture. It certainly is not due to any lack of effort on the part of the officers of the association nor of the interest felt in the first meeting by the college. This latter is attested by the large number of graduates and undergraduates who attend this particular meeting in preference to the ladies days. We think that much of the cause is due to the lack of a director of athletics, or trainer, as such a man is more commonly called. Such...
...seems a pity that more men should not have entered for some of the events. There seems to have been wanting a proper amount of interest and energy among those who are qualified to take part in these contests. The list of entries taken all together is a remarkably slim one. Only fourteen men have entered, exclusive of the tug-of-war teams, for eight events. Of these eight there are three which will be walkovers, leaving three cups to be contested for together with the trial heat of the tug-of-war. Besides these regular events the contest...
...regards the value of these lives and the use that is made of them, that a few words of explanation may not be unacceptable. It is the intention of the class secretaries in requesting every member of the class to write a short autobiographical sketch to obtain items of interest in the pre-collegiate and college life of each member, not easily ascertained by any other method. When the class lives are all handed in, they will be bound and kept in some accessible place, open to the inspection of the class only. The importance of these records...