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...also present, saying that he had done more for Harvard rowing than any other man in recent years Drawing an analogy between crew in American colleges and crew as it exists in England, he dwelt especially on the nearer approach to a similarity or attitude toward the sport "The English attitude has always been to regard the sport as a sport, while American colleges have been prone to regard it more as a task. Due largely to the rowing for all policy lately established, the attitude at Harvard has changed appreciably toward the former Rowing has become a real sport...
...best coach possible for the money at hand, the problem has now the additional complication of finding a good coach who is also qualified to act as an instructor. Granting, however, that such a rara avis could be secured, it is difficult to see how the importance of the sport in question would thereby be lessened. The popular interest in a contest is concerned not with the fact that a team coached by one expert is opposing a team coached by another, but that two great universities are meeting on the athletic field...
...theory of having coaches sit in the grand stand, like that of eliminating early season practise, will undoubtedly do much toward making the game more of a sport and less of a science, but it will hardly be effective in reducing the importance of the outcome. Before that can be satisfactorily accomplished, the entire outlook both of the student body and of the alumni must undergo a radical transformation--which is a task not for the presidents, but for the psychologists...
...sport more strenuous than squash is preferred. Handball, hockey, basketball, boxing, gymnasium work, or running on the board track are among the fields from which men may choose. By this system oarsmen will run less danger of overtraining from prolonged indoor work, of which there will be plenty after the mid-year examinations...
...past few years events in more than one sport have led to serious criticism on the part of graduates and of undergraduates of the way things were being carried on--criticism which has fallen in the last analysis on the shoulders of the Graduate Advisory Committees. It would be irrelevant at this time to defend or attack this criticism and the events which elicited it. But it is certain that the critics--and perhaps also, at times, the committees attacked and the Athletic Committee itself--have forgotten that after all the graduate Advisory Committees are merely representatives of the more...