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This afternoon marks the beginning of the really big days of sport at the University after the war. On track and diamond, Princeton is going to be met by Harvard teams inspired by the old time ante-war spirit...
News that the Athletic authorities of the University have reconsidered the stand which they took last week and have voted to place track on an equal footing with baseball and crow by re-establishing a training table for that sport, is decidedly satisfactory to those who were anxious to see a real handicap removed from a team of proven ability. This reversal of opinion may be attributed in no small degree to efforts of undergraduates, who, feeling keenly that an essential spirit of unity in the team was being seriously endangered, brought the authorities to a realization of the track...
...essential drive, and a slackness among individual members in matters of team play and training is the record which the baseball squad has presented to the University during the past three weeks. It has been a number of years since Harvard has had to face such a major sport problem. We have hesitated for a long time before admitting that fact; there seems now but little doubt that it is, unfortunately, true...
...large bank balance will result from the football game November 22. That economy is necessary, that foolish expenditure is unjustifiable, is obvious Undergraduates in the nature of events must be penalized for the war. Competition with Yale, however, is an immense asset in increasing the popularity of any sport. Money spent wisely to provide such contests for minor teams will do more than any other action to increase the general participation in organized athletics...
...class race with Yale does not call for an unreasonable outlay; it serves as a stimulant for an excellent sport. The University favors a race for the class championship on the river...