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...tonight's meeting in New York Dean Briggs will learn the attitude of Yale and Princeton towards fall sport. Princeton is contemplating an enlarged military program, but whether this will make her unable to participate in athletic contests cannot yet be determined...
Severely handicapped by the lack of experienced runners, and laboring under the same difficulties as the other athletic teams, the University track team made the poorest showing of all this season. The waning interest in this form of sport at the University the same shortage of field event men which has been difficult to overcome in recent years, and the short time available for practice combined to make this year's schedule far from successful...
...does not seem advisable that the straight "H" be awarded this year. Discounting entirely the records of the teams, it is obvious that in no branch of sport do they compare to pre-war teams. The wearing of the full "H" not only classes a man as one of the best of seven, or eight, or nine, or eleven men in a particular form of athletics at a particular time, but it denotes an athlete. No standard of athletic ability can be set, but in general it would be inopportune to give the letter to the members of this year...
...University crew, by its defeat of Yale Saturday, brought to a successful conclusion a season which more nearly approached the normal standard of college athletics than have other sports in the University this year. Owing to the curtailment of all sport last year no first boat veterans were available for the eight. However, the seating of the crew was not affected during the entire period of training by any of its members leaving to enter the service...
...less cordial manner with which we have been wont to treat our visitors. Little courtesies help to establish a better relationship between colleges and other universities, including Harvard, would do well to follow in the Tigers tracks. With all its evils it has taken the war to teach what sport for sport's sake means...