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...Harvard sports squash is perhaps the most representative. Success in it reflects the enthusiasm, which it has engendered throughout the University, an enthusiasm, bred of widespread participation in the sport. A championship team is, therefore, no accident...
...Lake Placid, paradise of icemen, sport went forward last week, not with pick and tongs, but with long blades of polished steel. Francis Allen of Chicago (TIME, Feb. 16) slashed the glassy lake with his runners, defeated Charles Gorman of Canada, champion last season, 120 points to 80, was crowned amateur speed skating champion...
This ancient and honorable sport dates back to three decades ago. It was in 1882 that Samuel C. T. Dodd, onetime anti-big-business lawyer employed by the Standard Oil Co., drew up a type of trust* agreement which later made the name of trust odious as a loose term applied to any large business organization. It connoted the idea of securing monopolies by unscrupulous practices. There were two principal evils which were combatted in that third decade ago. One was the formation of pools and price-fixing agreements with the aim of driving smaller competitors out of business...
...largest in the history of rowing at the University, 125 men reporting regularly to Coach Haines. Every effort has been made since Coach Stavens came to foster rowing, particularly among in experienced candidates, and his efforts are being rewarded by larger squads, and an ever-increasing interest in the sport...
Declaring that crew at Harvard was not a sport open only to the sons of rich men, or to the socially elect, Coach Stevens launched the 1925 rowing season yesterday afternoon in Smith Halls Common Room with a vigorous speech in which he defined the exact status he felt the sport should bear in relation to athletics in the University. Over 200 students, were assembled when he began speaking...