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Many of the athletic activities being indulged in at present at Harvard have been brought about through many years of systematic and cooperative effort, and this year for the first time sculling will bid for prominence as an organized sport, with the same characteristics that brought other sports to the high plane they now enjoy. All that is needed to bring about this result is activity by the undergraduate and graduate body of the University...
Excellent facilities, adequate equipment, and natural advantages plus coaching are available, and a little action will give much stimulus to foster this wonderfully healthful sport, as there are few branches of athletics that produce better physical results than sculling. It is done in the open and strengthens the abdominal and back muscles, develops the limbs, broadens the chest, helps the heart and lungs to function and, above everything else, makes for good sportsmanship which is the basic principle of all sports...
...Danforth at Saratoga Lake in 1876, when Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Columbia were contenders. The title that year was won by Charles S. Francis, Cornell, who later became prominent as U. S. ambassador to Hungary. I feel sure that if students of the University become interested in this sport, they will secure many benefits. Experience is not necessary. All who are interested will be given personal attention, with the idea of having sport for sports sake, as exercise means good health, and good health means happiness...
...squash racquets courts, in two tiers. In spite of this equipment, which is among the best in the country, it was found that all those desiring to play could not be accommodated. According to the official figures for this year, there are more men playing squash than any other sport. For this season, it has been decided to build six more squash racquets courts out of the present hard racquets courts, thus accommodating 190 men in an afternoon...
...diamond tomorrow afternoon. Tickets for this game and the other three remaining games before the southern trip will be placed on sale tomorrow morning at the H. A. A. and at Leavitt and Peirce's. Single Tickets are 25 cents and season tickets $3.00. The B. A. A. all-sport season, tickets will admit to the baseball games...