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...abolition of what has lately come to seem to many an unfortunate tendency towards undue specialization in our athletics may very possibly be one of the more important results of President Eliot's recent movement towards the reform of college athletics. Indeed, this may fairly be conjectured to be one of the chief aims of the movement. That college sports of late years have arisen to so high a degree of excellence and have developed teams, as well as individual athletes, of such exceptionally fine records, is surely a matter of congratulation to everybody. But that, at the same time...
Lacrosse, in spite of the promises of the papers last year, still seems to meet with as little popularity as ever. But what the lacrosse men complain most bitterly of is the lack of financial support, for so far the expenses of all trips, we believe, have been borne by the few men who are interested in the sport. This year there is still more need than ever of encouragement in one way and another; Princeton has taken a "powerful brace," we are made to understand, and the college at large seems to urge them on, so that they have...
...appearing at Philadelphia last June. But the sentiment here by no means justifies the opinions expressed in the University Magazine concerning the Harvard-Columbia dispute. To us, as lookers-on (perhaps not the best judges), the matter appears in a light very unfavorable to Harvard. As the parties seem totally unable to agree, even as to the facts in the case, the sooner the discussion ceases the better for inter-collegiate feeling...
...which was kicked from the field by Mason. The play of our team has been materially improved since their last match, and the spectators were much pleased by the game. The catching and kicking of the half-backs is still rather weak, however, and some of the men still seem disinclined to fall on the ball. The best playing for Harvard was done by Mason, Kendall and Ayres; for the Techs, by Haines, who made several very fine rushes in the last part of the game...
...will thus, theoretically at least, have a big advantage over the other nines. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good, they say, and this will have one good effect at least - it will show what and how much good practice with professionals will do. It would seem at present as if Yale had a good lead for next year's championship. - [Globe...