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...both from the educational and the athletic point of view, because of the tendency to make football games public spectacles, means of advertising, and revenue producers. It is also obvious that a continuation of present tendencies is inevitable, and as inevitably will lead to a complete degradation of the sport...
This new feature of the Physical Education program is the outgrowth of an effort on the part of the Department to extend to new men as many electives as possible in the realm of sport. On days when the ice is in condition men may substitute skating for their usual exercise, this system tending not only to afford unusual freedom in choice of time but also to relieve the monotony of the regular physical training periods. Attention of Freshmen taking advantage of this system is called to the fact that although the blue-book is up only between the hours...
...college football games in the past three seasons may have gratified the managers of athletic associations they have certainly caused no little anxiety to University administrators. They have assumed a place of vast importance in college affairs. During the vacation a number of lesser educational lights have attacked "college sport" and now President Lowell brings the question, even more urgently, to our attention...
...past editorials we expressed the belief that the justification of athletics, particularly at Harvard, was two fold: they served to make financially possible for all the students participation in some form of sport, and they served as the one tangible bond between Harvard men as such, particularly for those Harvard men who, because of immaturity, can not be bound together in any other way. Let us, in the light of these two factors, consider the question which is raised by President Lowell...
...when we consider finances the problem is less simple. Granted that there, is something incongruous in the idea of a university going into the business of entertaining the public, how else can we make possible the existence of our many minor sport teams and the possibilities for athletics which we now have? By taxing the student? Possibly that may be the way out. But the fact that the present system relieves us all of so much trouble and anxiety prevents us from welcoming any such method. If the public, we ask, is willing to help support the University, why should...