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Entrants in the Childs Cup race are Columbia, Penn and Princeton. It is probable that the University second crew will row in the American Henley regatta on the Schuylkill. As the University of Wisconsin has resumed rowing as a major sport and is considering sending an eight East to row in the Intercollegiate regatta at Poughkeepsie this June, oarsmen are looking forward to this event with interest...
...performance of individual contestants; it was a question of teams, not persons. But of late there has been a gradual change of policy--a crystallization of willingness on the part of coaches to see the game from the onlooker's point of view. All branches of sport are beginning to realize the added value to be attained by identifying the players, thus making them human beings, rather than indistinguishable coks in the wheels of a machine...
...Whether one looks at photography as a sport, a hobby, or a useful occupation, it has the same property of health building--in keeping one outdoors and occupied much of the time,--especially, of course, in wild animal work in which I have been particularly interested--the same over-increasing possibilities, and the same growing fascination for the truly interested which makes it a pleasure to oneself and to other people...
...successful candidates will be elected to the news board, and will become eligible for the position of managing editor and president. Editors will also be allowed to write dramatic and literary reviews. Editors assigned to a sport will accompany the various teams on trips and will receive special reimbursement in addition to having their expenses paid...
Professor F. J. A. Pyre of Wisconsin State University, himself an old football player, sounded a serious note of warning that college sport is approaching that same dangerous position which resulted in nation-wide curtailment fifteen years ago. He named overintensification in sport and the dangers of contamination from professional methods as likely to leave the college with mammoth stadiums, built in the present period of enthusiasm, but desolate a few years hence, if college faculties decide that the primary purpose of colleges is education and not athletics. He pointed out that the present craze for athletics, if not guarded...