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...truly equal opportunity for all in physical training, and a removal of the semi-professional spirit. Compulsory athletics we could neither regard as practical nor as advisable. Those who had seen the actual working of compulsion suggested that the opposition which the idea raised in the individual almost totally offset the advantages of the training offered. Although we cannot express an opinion on the matter till a more definite plan is proposed, yet it would seem more reasonable to organize the new system with a view toward extending the opportunities rather than toward requiring the students to act against their...
...teams are about even on weight, each line averaging about 160 pounds. The Tufts backfield may be a little heavier but the University backs are fast and will offset the difference
Saturday's game marked the last contest in which several of the University players will appear. No future efforts will serve to offset what defeat has brought them. They have entered a larger service than athletic activity. As they go, Harvard honors them and their leader, who have contributed so much toward establishing war-time sport and who now no longer participate in that which they have so created...
...attention of the members of the Faculty and of the Graduate Schools is called to the fact that the University is looking to them in the hope that they will add the sums of their bond purchases to the total collection of the University. Moreover, in order to offset the objections of many men who want their subscriptions to count at home, these buyers may subscribe through the University Committee, have their sums credited to their local banks and, at the same time, have the amount of their subscriptions used to increase the University's total collection, without entering...
...work, the outlook for Pennsylvania's varsity crew appears far more promising. Although a severe loss was incurred by the retirement of Captain Tilden, Jerauld, who rowed on the 1917 eight, O'Gorman, a member of last year's freshman crew, and Van Ginkle, an experienced oarsman, will partly offset...