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...inauguration of the intercollegiate swimming season finds the teams representing the various Eastern colleges and universities rapidly rounding into shape. Preliminary trials have resulted in most cases in the selection of first-string men, and nearly all those institutions having swimming on their sport schedules have already held their first meet of the season...
That an interest in fencing is rapidly growing is well demonstrated by the fact that both Dartmouth and M. I. T. have again taken it up. M. I. T. formerly had a team, but for Dartmouth the sport is entirely new. It is probable that both institutions will be represented in the championships this year...
Many leading men in the realm of sport as well as the Western Conference Association are opposed to professional football, on the grounds that professionalism is itself undesirable and would interfere with college football, one of the best qualities of which is its amateur standing...
...played out of the control of self-respecting universities, colleges and schools it requires supervision by the authorities no less rigid than is exercised over the prize ring. Football may be a game or it may be a fight. In any event it is peculiarly a college sport and has many features that cannot be transplanted to mercenary soil. One of them is the amateur flavor of intercollegiate football--one of its very greatest assets; professionalism, not only sullies the game as a game; but injures the college branch of the sport, inasmuch as the temptation held out to college...
Another well-known sport writer, Sol Metzger, physical director at Union College gives this statement...