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...most convincing evidence that boxing is a form of exercise well suited to the development of mind and muscle, is the fact that the sport has lived through one century after another from the days of the ancient Greeks to our own more enlightened times, and today is more popular than ever before. If participation in a form of athletics such as boxing were not beneficial to the development of man's body and brain, it would have perished long ago, so I feel that in writing these lines for the CRIMSON I am speaking of a game that merits...
...properly done brings into play every muscle in the body. It develops speed with the arms and legs, teaches perfect balancing of the weight, sudden shifting of weight from one foot to the other and, above all, calls for alertness of the eye and mind second to no other sport. The eye becomes trained to notice an instant's opening in the other man's defense, the mind must instantly recognize the opportunity, direct the proper currents of muscular action to start the hands on their way to take advantage of that opening. There is eye, brain and muscle...
With instructions to work only at half speed the boys are then paired off to box lightly with one another, care being taken to see that at no time do they work any faster than half speed until they have familiarized themselves with the sport sufficiently to preclude the possibility of accidents. After two or three weeks of this I find the students here at Harvard are capable of such good work that the rounds are full of action and the full benefit of the exercise results...
...believe that boxing is a natural sport for Americans. We borrowed it, of course, from the old world, but I think the youths of this country take to it so naturaly that they develop faster than elsewhere. I have found some excellent material since I started instructing at the University and in fact many of the boys in the classes have learned so rapidly that, in refereeing professional bouts, I have found many of the preliminary boxers do not know nearly so much about how to box as the boys in the classes. I do not attribute this to anything...
...following members of the Harvard squash racquets team played all through the season, and although they did not play Yale in this sport, they did meet Yale in squash tennis, a branch of squash racquets, and on this basis were awarded their letters...