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...objection so often urged "that athletics take too much time" would be greatly increased. Besides this if there is no trainer an athlete can not help worrying more than he otherwise would and thus another objectionable feature is introduced. From all this I conclude that a trainer of some sort or other is indispensable and I believe the Athletic Committee of the faculty agree with me. The trouble now is one of money. The plan of the committee is to have an educated man for trainer. Such a man cannot be found for a salary of much less than...
...hall does not, of course furnish a perfectly satisfactory basis for comment, but the general idea of what we are to expect can be gained from the number of meals we have already had. It is absolutely necessary that the hall should be filled to ensure any sort of success and with the large incoming class we do not doubt that the tables will soon all be taken...
...time and labor. The traditional college training, with its strict academical customs, of course is very apt to regard with horror any toleration of the use of the ubiquitous "trot," and to set down such a liberty as a moral sin. What seems the most absurd manifestation of this sort of prejudice is the custom in vogue among the professors of Lehigh University, where the text books in use are immediately changed as soon as a "pony" is found. A standard which holds up the antique methods of classical training as the best is, perhaps, driven to this expedient...
...class, or at most of only one section of the community, can never excite the enthusiasm or acquire the national dignity enjoyed by one where, by a touch of nature, prince, peer and peasant are made kin. Lawn tennis is exactly calculated to be a game of the latter sort. It is fit for old and young, for men and women, for the strong and the weak. It expands the lungs, strengthens the muscles, improves the condition and takes off "weight" as surely as a Turkish bath, and more wholesomely. Such a game ought to be "national" in the best...
There is a genial, social aspect about lawn tennis that has, no doubt, largely ministered to the growth of its popularity. It possesses no mysteries like the ancient and classic game whose name it has borrowed, and whose champions look down upon the intruder as rather a sorry sort of parvenu. A person who cannot be made to understand that the advance at a bound from "fifteen" to "thirty" is a perfectly natural numerical progression, that thirty is a matter of course leaps at once to forty, and that "deuce" is the parent of "vantage," must be singularly obtuse...