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George Owen Jr. '23, former University athlete who competed in nine major sport competitions against Yale while an undergraduate, will not accept an offer as coach of football and baseball teams at Wesleyan University, he announced last night...
...former is incompatible with prestige in the latter. He supposes that President Lowell's development of the tutorial system and his hopes for its fostering of scholarship are regarded by alumni as a blow at athletic superiority and a cause of the University's recent defeats in major sport contests. Absurd as all this sounds, Mr. Nichols goes even further. He implies that the tempest of criticism which has stormed about the administration in past months has been aroused by the fear of alumni that Harvard's athletic reputation is at state. What Professor Baker and the rise...
This is the last opportunity which Freshman candidates for managerships will have to win their major sport numerals. The contest will be of approximately seven weeks' duration and the winner will be announced before the Freshman game with Yale. The two highest men will be in charge of this game as manager and assistant manager. Both will receive their numerals...
...Emory 21, and S. H. Humes 2L, known as the "Mutt and Jeffs," together with Paris Fletcher 1L and L. T. Wade 2L, or the "Appleknockers," are the Law School cycle aces. Each pair possesses a two-seated machine and have proclaimed their proficiency in the sport by issuing a challenge to all comers. An undergraduate duet, who withhold their names for the present, have accepted the offer under the title of "Authony and Cleopatra," and have began rigorous training...
...worked there, as tutor in Greek, Professor of English, Dean of the College, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For 17 years, he was Chairman of the Harvard Athletic Committee, taught sportsmanship, waged war on the educated muckers who once kept his college athletics in derision. "Sport for sport's sake," was his slogan. He pitied trembling umpires, decried inanely garrulous big men, reformed bullying coaches, strive to bring honor back to amateur Baseball...