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...have been working hard to make up a team, we are forced to the conclusion that the amount and quality of the material are totally inadequate. The men lack experience; they have no good coach, and, take it all in all, their chances for winning a place for Harvard seem very slight. It has not yet been finally decided. we understand, whether or not to send this team to the games. The captain of the "Mott Haven" team is of course the one most competent to decide the question. The college, however, has an opinion...
Especially apparent has this been in rowing. The differences among the various factions which have had a part in the management of our rowing affairs have been notorious. Happily, they now seem ended; and indications point toward settled methods to be pursued year after year in boating and in other sports, just as they have been successfully followed out in our track athletics. When such a system is once settled upon for all our sports, its effect, strengthened by the new spirit which Captain Cumnock first brought to our athletics two years ago, will begin an era fo uninterrupted prosperity...
...present disagreement does not seem to us to be so important in itself, but it brings in a most important principle. We claim no right to interfere in any one else's affairs; we disclaim the intention of allowing any one else to interfere in ours...
...would seem from this letter that all hope of games with Yale this year were at an end. We are not in a position to say anything more definite on this subject than that the final settlement of the matter of games is in the hands of the Graduate Advisory Committee on base ball. Whatever is done by this committee the college is confident will be well done...
Rules concerning fouling and finishing follow. In walking a third caution shall disqualify, excepting on last 220 yds., when disqualfication may take place without cautioning. Detailed rules follow, concerning hurdles, jumping, pole-vaulting, putting shot and throwing hammer. The framers of these rules seem to have appreciated the difficulties of determining whether a bicycle race is fair or not, as they have made the rule concerning bicycling very detailed. In fact, although it is all but impossible to prevent misunderstandings in our athletic meetings of any importance, yet such misunderstandings can hardly arise through an ambiguity or vagueness in these...