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...plan this fall, and it will be similar in the winter and spring, is as follows. Each dormitory, Standish, Gore, and Smith Halls, will have one or more teams in each one of the following sports: football, soccer, rowing, cross-country, track, baseball, handball, tennis, lacrosse. All men who wish to compete for one of these teams must report at once to the Freshman squad in his particular sport. Later in the season the men not making the Freshman team will be formed into respective dormitory teams. There will be first, second, and third teams, depending on the number...
...system of compulsory athletics for Freshmen is on the verge of its first year. Rigid examinations are being arranged with view to ascertaining for what form of sport the men are fitted. All available equipment is being prepared for the use of the many members...
Shortly after each Freshman arrives he will be summoned to Dr. Lee's office and be put through a strenuous physical examination. On the basis of this test and sports which they elect the men will be divided into five groups. Group A, who are fit for any sport and elect to try out for the regular teams; Group B, who are reasonably sound, but do not elect organized Freshman athletics; Group C, who will be limited to interdormitory teams or special work; Group D, who need special work for corrective purposes, and Group E, who for some special reason...
...many of the balance as desire it, interdormitory teams will be established at each of the three Freshman dormitories in all sports, which the College knows. These dormitories will compete against each other on an intramural basis in a system known as the St. Paul plan. Coaches and assistants will be provided to take charge of this work, so that the men will not suffer from unsupervised exertion. In the fall and spring this will take the great majority of those men not engaged on the regular squad. Should there be any left-overs who do not want to participate...
...order to provide accommodations for the greatly increased number of men who will be exercising, the department of physical training will commandeer every available inch of Soldiers Field suitable for outdoor sport. As much as possible the men will be kept outdoors, for the director believes in the value of open air as a complement of exercise. In the winter time the men will have the use of Hemenway Gymnasium, Randolph Gymnasium, the Baseball Cage, the Dunster swimming pool and its squash courts. Thirteen squash and racquet courts will be available in Randolph Gymnasium after repairs now under...