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...contest in which several of the University players will appear. No future efforts will serve to offset what defeat has brought them. They have entered a larger service than athletic activity. As they go, Harvard honors them and their leader, who have contributed so much toward establishing war-time sport and who now no longer participate in that which they have so created...
...will be no great intercollegiate game, but rather one which exemplifies the new spirit of athletic relations. It will not be heralded by the great preparations of previous years. It will be characterized, on the contrary, not only by friendly intercollegiate rivalry, but by a genuine feeling of sport for sport's sake...
...Where today our team already feels the loss of many, next week will see a considerable decrease in its strength,. Let everyone, therefore, take this opportunity of attending a game, which is not only a Yale-Harvard game, but which marks the high tide of war-time sport...
...success this year has almost exceeded all expectations. There is cause for exultation in this alone. Yet the outcome of Saturday's games is gratifying not only from a competitive point of view, but also from the standpoint of its relation to this spring's formal system of sport...
...greatest good for a maximum number of men. Last fall the informal system was introduced, but has since been discarded as a failure, as the teams seemed to lack the spirit of co-ordination so essential to victory. The Princeton games placed the system of combined military training and sport on trial, and the result has so far been highly satisfactory. The quality of the teams may be lower than the general average of those in the past, but the same Harvard spirit is there. The competitive spirit, however, has changed. The two universities competed Saturday in what seemed...