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...college football," writes President Lowell, "has not been the result of a deliberate plan. It has grown up by a consideration of the questions presented year by year, and is not based upon any principle recognized as imperative by faculties, alumni and spectators. The public interest in the sport, as a spectacle, has become general over the country, and has increased markedly since the war. It has tended to give excessive importance to college athletic contests...
...this year the attendance at the whole series has been larger than ever before. Although the severity of the injuries suffered, and especially the danger to life, have been materially diminished by the changes in the rules made a dozen years ago, football remains a rough and strenuous sport in which injuries are often received that impair the efficiency of the players for a couple of weeks, or more...
...present policy in college football has not been the result of a deliberate plan. It has grown up by a consideration of the questions presented year by year, and is not based upon any principle recognized as imperative by faculties, alumni and spectators. The public interest in the sport, as a spectacle, has become general over the country, and has increased markedly since the war. It has tended to give excessive importance to college athletic contests. That intercollegiate matches have a distinct value in stimulating sports, which are the best form of physical exercise in youth, few people would...
...hockey season has already started with a 3-0 victory for Smith Hall over Standish and a Standish victory over Gore by the score of 2-1. Keen competition is being shown in this sport as demonstrated by the last game in which two extra periods were necessary to play off a 1-1 tie. All Freshmen who have elected hockey as their compulsory exercise and have not got a position on the regular Freshman squad are divided into groups, each man being assigned to his own dormitory. Practice is planned for three days a week...
...which will not interfere with the other squads, Practice has been held for several weeks and the teams will be ready for the first game of the series on Friday, when Gore will face Smith. A regular schedule will be formed and captains will be elected, and the sport will then be put on an organized basis. Another well represented sport is squash, as more than 100 men are reporting. This large number has resulted in a change in organization from last year and five men will be chosen to represent each hall as against the two players picked last...