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Here are four clocks, all going at different speeds, two registering morning, and two afternoon time. The betting on the winners is wonderful sport. They have a shooting gallery at one end of the room with a bell moving across a black screen, any number of whirling spheres, electric light bulbs, etc. At one side of the shooting gallery is a peep show which you work with a big wheel, something like one with which a boat is steered. There are an infinite number of old roulette wheels hung along each wall together with boomerangs. Boomerangs were used...
Last spring a Harvard Golf Association was formed with the purpose of promoting the sport and giving impetus to the idea of a course for Harvard. This idea has won much ardent support and already some enthusiasts can easily foresee the day when they will be able to swing their clubs on a University course. A happy day, indeed, but far from realization. There's many a slip, as the golfer would say, between the tee and the cup. The plan ought not to be permitted to die in its infancy from lack of consistent support. The Golf Association...
...activity of paid professionals because he has nothing else to do, and the almost equally unconstructive primitive man who was forced to spend all his time in wielding a club. Science, although it has made life too easy for health, has paved the way for the amateur in sport and intellect; but must leave it to the individual to make judicious use of both...
...Freshmen who have not reported at Wadsworth 6 to sigh up for some organized sport must report today for physical training at the Freshman Athletic Building. Lists have been posted arranging men in four sections, which meet respectively...
...somehow these periodic matches for the international heavyweight championship apear to fall outside the confines of true sport. There is in them no trace of spiritual or mental quality. Brute force wins the battle...