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...that the snow has gone and the track is in condition for use, we shall hope to see that our athletes appreciate the necessity of hard and faithful work if they desire to retain at Harvard the cup won by our last year's Mott Haven team. We have as yet no representatives at all for the hurdles, half-mile run, pole leaping, hammer, shot, or running broad jump, and any men who may have an idea of trying for any of these events would do well to begin as soon as possible, for they all require a great deal...
...defend our claim to the championship cup, and we shall need quite as much careful preparation for this as would be necessary, if the athletic men from New Haven were willing to meet us. We hope, at least, that Yale will have sufficient enterprise to send some representatives to Mott Haven; and sometime in the future, when she has gained a little more confidence, we shall hope to be able to arrange the annual meetings which she is at present so loath to undertake...
...Field Meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association occurs at Mott Haven...
...projected Yale Meetings, and a desire to keep at Harvard the championship cup, (which will be on exhibition in the Gymnasium as soon as it is finished), it would be well for our athletes to realize that if we desire to retain the position in athletics which our Mott Haven Team of last year gained for us, we cannot content ourselves with resting on their laurels, but must make up our minds to work well and faithfully with that end in view...
...Bicycle Race also lacks representatives who will work, if we can take last spring for a criterion, for at that time none of our numerous bicyclists could be found disengaged, who were willing to take the trouble to train for Mott Haven. In the Running High Jump we have two or three men on whom we can depend; but the sum total of our athletes to whom we can look for conscientious training is, it has been seen, lamentably small...