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...seasons of two University major sport teams began yesterday, when candidates for the University crew and for the baseball team reported. About 50 candidates were present at each meeting...
...English enthusiasts have began to murmur--what Americans have been thoughtlessly shouting for some time--that England has much to learn from s in regard to athletics. But the enthusiasts see only the sunny side of American sport. It is just barely possible that England should be the teacher, and America the pupil...
...managerships, a matter touched in my report for 1920-21. The findings of a Faculty Committee which had talked informally and freely with representative students confirmed everybody's suspicion that candidates for managerships often damaged themselves by unintelligent use of their time, damaged players by servile attentions, and damaged sport by such shirking of their college 'duties as gave it a bad name. "The problem with our managers," says Mr. William J. Bingham, who has supervised them in the past year, "is to decrease the amount they are now doing, or at least to make them discriminate between the essential...
Against such a display of arbitration mere mortals are helpless. The only resource left is an attempt at imagining oneself in the outfit decreed. "Peg-top" trousers and sport coats, Norfolk predominating, with "novelty" effects for street wear, and as capstone and keynote of the whole "a low, flat, derby hat with a small feather, preferably red or grey, tucked neatly on the left side"; and man is complete in all his glory. If the new styles find ready acceptance perhaps it would be well to garb even tender freshmen in somber caps and gowns...
Each branch of sport is treated separately, arranged in the order in which the competitions with Yale began--rowing, baseball, football, track and field athletics, hockey and, finally, brief statements about lawn tennis and golf, for the "H" is given to Harvard men who win the Intercollegiate tennis championship in singles or doubles and to men who win the intercollegiate golf championship...