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...trend of college athletics this spring is visibly toward that form of sport which effects the general development of all students rather than the intensified training of a few. Though formal intercollegiate contests were abandoned early in the fall by many of the larger colleges, the recent tendency is to conduct games as usual, though with an object, not of victory, but of physical development...
...University of Pennsylvania is going ahead with the usual athletic schedule with the feeling that it is an especial duty to the country to promote the physical vigor of the undergraduates by keeping alive an unflagging interest in sports. Quite recently, in an address in New York City, M. J. Pickering, graduate manager of athletics at the University of Pennsylvania, justified this policy by attributing its adoption to the outspoken appeal of the student body for participation in various branches of sport in order that they might fit themselves for military service...
What we need is the old intercollegiate system with its evils taken away. Intramural sport should be encouraged, but it can not be the basis of the system; the example of a University team is the ideal for which every man strives. But the old evils must be abolished; we do not wish to get back into the rut in which we have been running for the last decade. The money question has been the greatest drawback, and next to it, the elaborate system of training, both of which over-emphasize the importance of athletics. These dangers are gone...
...meeting in the Trophy Room of the Union tonight at 8.15 o'clock, baseball plans for the coming season will be outlined by Dr. E. H. Nicholas '86, Coach Duffy, W. W. McLeod '19, and R. McA. Lloyd '19. All upperclassmen and Freshman interested in the sport are expected to attend the meeting...
...organized athletics. Yale, with much longer hours of drill than ours, carried on a very successful rowing season in the fall. Harvard last year, while drilling five hours a week, managed to spend five days in every week at athletics without any loss of interest in either drill or sport...