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...HAVE been informed by persons, who should be authority on the subject, that a large portion of the apparatus in the old gymnasium is to be utilized in furnishing our new one. If this is a fact (and I have no reason to think otherwise) I desire to make an emphatic objection, and I am confident that all who are at all interested in athletics will join with me in opposing this project. If, however, I have been misinformed, as I hope I have been, it will possibly be of no harm to direct the attention of the "powers that...
...Oxford, but we could not then go as "champions," on which so many seem to insist. A race for the "championship," while a very desirable thing, is by no means essential, as Oxford was not challenged to row the "champion" American crew, but simply Harvard University. This is the reason of our "indifference" about the Cornell and Columbia race. Cornell has everything to gain and nothing to lose; with us it is just the reverse. We asked her in a gentlemanly way to give us a little time to complete our negotiations with England; she seizes on this...
...each forensic should be announced. We do not see what objection there could be to doing this, and the advantages would be obvious. A student could then tell the relation of his own forensics to each other, and to those of other men. But if, for some inscrutable reason, this favor cannot be granted, the separate marks given to each forensic should at least be announced when the last forensic has been examined, and not merely the average on all. We make this request with the more confidence, since the instructor has shown himself willing to give as much benefit...
...sorry to hear that Harvard's challenge to Yale to row a race for the single-scull championship has been declined. The reason alleged was, "that it would establish a bad precedent, and tend to lessen the interest in the eight-oared race." This certainly seems rather a foolish idea, for one would think that if a Freshman race and a single-scull race could be arranged between the two colleges, to come off at the same time with the "Varsity," it would rather increase than diminish the interest. But as the H. U. B. C. offered...
...First, That an undue share of time, money, and exertion is given to the cultivation of muscle in the universities; secondly, that by reason of success in athletics, the universities arrogate to themselves superiority where they do not possess it; thirdly, that other colleges and the outside world are deluded into this belief, and fall down and worship the gilded calf. We remember hearing a young sport say in a library in this city: 'There's no doubt about Harvard. I would n't give two cents to graduate at Yale. I graduated at Harvard.' Better no education...