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...week, the "Y" Club, which has been in process of formation for almost six months, was permanently organized and a constitution was adopted. J. M. Braden, captain of the university track team, was elected president of the club, and an Executive Committee was formed consisting of representatives from every sport, and Dr. A. L. Sharpe, the new director of athletics...
Once more Harvard is to be represented in France, but this time in the field of sport, not of war. The news that two University track athletes are to sail for France today to take part in the Inter-Allied track meet has been the cause of much comment among undergraduates. The latter not only envy the men selected but they are proud that out of the fifty men chosen to represent the United States, two are from Harvard...
...Governors. In his speech he emphasized the fact that it is the purpose of this new plan to keep as far from the feeling of compulsion as possible, while making certain that all members of the first year class take an active interest in the various forms of sport...
...This training", he said, "is planned to be essentially sport and fun, rather than routine and drill. There is no idea of having it supplant organized athletics among the Freshmen, but rather it shall supplement them, in that it will bring the majority of men out for teams, and thus supply material which otherwise might never be discovered...
...more cautiously scientific American pilots. Then he was lost for a week, and General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement, was deeply affected last week as he told a New York audience that Americans seemed to feel that loss,--the loss of a thorough sport,--almost more than Englishmen themselves...