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...athletic history, the only event at all resembling it being the air meet at Atlantic City last June. Such an innovation would undoubtedly be popular, is the opinion of Columbia Aero Club officers, if for no other reason than that the hazards of cross-country air racing puts this sport in a separate class from all other athletic activities...
...undergraduates have learned a good bit of the old-time sport in this last week. The mass meeting Wednesday was crowded; the parade to the field Thursday, in spite of the bad weather, was large and spontaneous; the cheering at the game itself was good. But from now on, the mass meetings must be more than crowded; the parades must be more than large; the cheering must be more than good...
...most important objects of compulsory physical training is to interest Freshmen in some form of outdoor sport. Exercise in a gymnasium is good, but is does not fill the place of a competitive game played in the open air. Mere development of the muscles during one year is not what is wanted; a real interest must be aroused so that men will regard their exercise not as an unpleasant task required of them, but as a real pleasure which they will continue throughout their college course...
...speculating on the 1919 Eastern championship, New York sport writers are wondering simply whether it will go to Colgate, Dartmouth, or Pennsylvania. They glance at the unimpressive schedules of Harvard not only, but of Yale, and of Princeton (of eight games the latter has only four difficult to win) and they have recorded their suspicions that the "Big Three," having year by year dropped "dangerous" adversaries from the schedule, are not displaying the best possible sportsmanship...
...Club at Yale has reached 150, and when the projected drive for members is over it is expected that this number will be materially increased. The "Y" Club was founded last spring to promote more interest in athletics at Yale, all candidates for major and minor sport teams being eligible for membership...