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...mass meeting in the Union last night, which officially marked the beginning of he spring track season, an audience of men who have reported for the sport listened to speeches by alumni, Dr. Whelan, and Captain D. F. O'Connell '21. W. M. Rand '09, a member of the graduate advisory committee, introduced the speakers, assuring the men out for track that every member of the Advisory Committee as well s all former track men are behind Dr. Whelan in his plan to put track back on its proper basis here...
Accepted by the House, the bill, making legal Sunday sport of amateur character in Massachusetts, is at last on the way to becoming fact. Long have the golfers and tennis players in the Bay State Been deprived with Puritanical ardor of the exercise and recreation so much needed after a week of indoor work. Those how religiously go to church every Sunday and have had to sit all afternoon before an open window, with Plato's "Republic", before them, will no longer have to simulate long "dries" or back-hand "volleys...
Every man in the University who intends to become a candidate for the University or 1923 track teams or who is interested in the sport should report at the mass meeting in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 7 o'clock. The group of speakers who will outline the new system and explain the plans for this season includes W. M. Rand '09, a member of the graduate track advisory committee, W. F. Garcelon '95, former graduate treasurer of the H. A. A., R. B. Wigglesworth '12, R. T. Fisher '12, head coach of the University football team...
Tonight's meeting will officially launch the new system for track which it is hoped will put the sport on a par with its standing at Yale, Princeton, and Cornell. The speakers plan to show, by comparison with other colleges, the importance of having a large squad in order to develop a team which shall bring consistent victories...
...present the management is planning several innovations for the Locker Building, with a view to making the Track Room a place not only for dressing quarters but also a sort of club room where track candidates may lounge, read, and talk up the sport among themselves In this respect the room will parallel the H. U. B. C. room in Newell boat house which the members of the University eight use as club quarters. The room will be renovated and supplied with more chairs, current numbers of magazines, and a victrola. A box for suggestions will be set up underneath...