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...knowledge is confined to Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. At Harvard some years ago some energetic cricketers collected subscriptions enough to lay out a little piece of turf, some twenty or thirty yards, in a part of Holmes field, and this is our ground at the present moment. During the past two years several college matches and matches with the neighboring clubs have been played, but the interest in the college seems to have been gradually failing. Last autumn we thought we would see if something could not be done to give the cricket interest a boom. Notices...
...plenty of men in college who want to see cricket do well, and it will only take a little energy to make the game a success in Harvard, and that energy I think will be forthcoming next spring. Our ground is poor, but that cannot be helped. At present there is no chance of securing a better one. We have to play almost all our matches out of Cambridge. A good ground more than anything else is what is needed to make cricket a permanent game at Harvard. Indeed, a well cared for cricket field is an ornament...
...Society for the election of officers for the succeeding year will be held on the third Wednesday in February. At that time it will devolve upon the members to determine the future policy of the society by the election of a president and board of directors to succeed the present officers. The first year of the society - necessarily a tentative and experimental year - has, we think, been highly successful, and has solved the problem of the society's future existence. The extent of the benefits that have been conferred and of the work that has been done by the society...
...specialist to display his abilities, and only specialists enter them. In their case the entire energy of the system has been concentrated on the development of special powers, and every thing else is set aside as useless. This is the great objection to athletic exercises as they are at present conducted. Symmetry of development is never thought of, nor is it ever acquired by exclusive reliance upon any of our popular sports. Indeed, we would venture to select from any group of recognized athletes the oarsmen, the ball-players and the gymnasts, simply from their peculiar muscular development...
Under the present circumstances he considers the college the suitable place to lay the physical foundation for a man's life, to further this end he advocates compulsory attendance at gymnasium exercises of a graded character, suited to the needs of each individual student. He deprecates the custom in some places of keeping the student for ever at the same exercises, as he needs change and advancement in physical as well as in mental study. In conclusion, although he recognizes the value of such sports as foot-ball, rowing and base-ball, he considers a well conducted gymnasium as best...