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...while R. A. Lancaster '20 will continue behind the bat. Harrison, who has not pitched since the game with Columbia on the Southern trip, has his spit-ball working in mid-season form now, and a week's practice has also served to bring his fielding up to the par of the rest of the infield...
Tonight's meeting will officially launch the new system for track which it is hoped will put the sport on a par with its standing at Yale, Princeton, and Cornell. The speakers plan to show, by comparison with other colleges, the importance of having a large squad in order to develop a team which shall bring consistent victories...
...literature which will find its place in the historical archives is the story of the invasion of the West by the Harvard University Football Team of 1919, written by one who followed the team to the Golden Gate not as one of the besieging host, but as the chronicler par excellence, William C. Spargo. The witty style will at once appear familiar to any who read the sporting page of one of the large Boston evening papers and who enjoy the "Speaking of Sport" Column. As the foreword explains, the booklet was written as a readable memento of the seventeen...
...many years the University has hoped to establish a Graduate School of Education which would place the training of teachers and school officers on a par with the training for other professions. This Graduate School of Education will greatly expand the work of the present Division of Education at Harvard, the Division remaining only for the purpose of giving a few undergraduate courses, chiefly for those who do not intend to teach. The Graduate School will train school and college teachers, school superintendents, and normal school teachers; will conduct researches in Education, will have its own library, laboratory, and model...
...successful in making a popular appeal, professional football will deal a heavy blow at the spirit which has made football almost unique among college sports. Football has obtained its position as the college sport par excellence largely because of its freedom from the taint of commercialism. By nature a rough, and at times a brutal game, football is never theless dominated by the amateur spirit, and the thousands of boys and young men who play it in our schools and colleges do it for love of the game, and not from any ulterior consideration of future gain. The springing...