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...adoption of the inter-class series of races in crew last spring with the opportunity for the championship eight to meet a rival aggregation from New Haven added greatly to the interest in the sport among the men on the lower crews. The spirit inculcated at that time carried Fall rowing through to success and is now once more proving its value in bringing oarsmen out in larger numbers than ever before...
...learn the game of baseball, and at the same time keep up his interest in the sport by sunning himself on the bench as well as he could by actually playing on his class nine,--provided of course, that a certain amount of coaching is afforded the latter team. Thus the plan of holding an inter-class series is in itself worth while. Add to its natural virtues, however, the chance for a game with Yale's championship class team, and the idea needs no further recommendation...
Basketball made its first formal bid for official recognition last night when Paul Jackson '21, who has been the undergraduate manager of class basket ball this year, presented a petition to the Athletic Committee requesting that basketball be made a recognized 'minor sport next year. The petition will be acted upon at the next meeting of the Athletic Committee. It was signed by the four captains and managers of the class teams...
...natural sequence of the Freshman basketball team organized as an experiment by the Department of Physical Education this winter. The interest not only in the Freshman basketball, but also in the interclass series has been so great that the management feels justified in asking that basketball be a University sport next year and that a modest schedule be arranged...
...Every human soul is thrilled by the spectacle of an aeroplane cleaving through the skies. As a sport, its devotees place it high above the earthly pleasures of football or rowing. But it has not yet found its place among the recognized college sports of American universities. Annual college contests in the air bid fair to rival in interest and excitement the popular field sports of yesterday. The pioneers in this movement are undergraduates at Harvard, and already, within a year after doffing their flying uniforms for college robes, they have won a score and more of College Flying Clubs...