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...Athletic Committee of the faculty that no professional trainer would be allowed within the college grounds. The desire of that committee was to make the tone of college athletics higher than they had feared it had been of late years and was not at all to discourage a healthy interest in athletics. The whole ground of this matter has been gone over more fully in the college papers than I can do in this report and it will suffice for me to state what, in my opinion, has been the effect of this regulation of the Faculty. Apparently this regulation...
...successful and I should by all means advise its continuance as well as the plan of having either handicap or limited races. I doubt if the new ground will be in condition for a meeting this fall, in which case it will have to be omitted unless there is interest enough for a meeting at Beacon Park. If practicable, I should very strongly advise that a freshman class meeting be held in the fall. The one last year was very successful. The plan of sending a printed list of the events to each member of the class aroused interest...
...Lowell here speaks of the winter and spring meetings as well as of the intercollegiate meeting at New York, with the details of which our readers are already familiar, In order to increase the interest in the winter meetings and to avoid having only one entry in any one event, Mr. Lowell suggests that a class championship be instituted and a trophy be offered to the class winning the most events...
...association. The gentleman who offered the General Development prizes instituted a custom which was very beneficial, and which I hope will be continued. The gentleman who offered the prize for general excellence in sparring, and the one who offered one for wrestling, did a great deal to embrace the interest in those exercises...
...reproach for a multitude of sins. Nevertheless it would be hard to extend the reproach for such narrowness to the university itself. The good people of Cambridge proper, and of course more particularly of the outlying districts of the town, it must be said, take a very passive interest in all that concerns the college and the current of college thought. Between the icy embargo of its withered aristocracy and the nonchalant indifference of its more vital plebes, in this respect there is little to choose. Harvard University has become cosmopolitan. The city of Cambridge remains provincial...