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...athletics is linked with such big football contests as those between Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and their absence this year has, in Princeton at least, tended toward a more sane and normal attitude toward athletics that is certainly most desirable. If this spirit be maintained with regard to every sport, and if some of the large overhead expense of coaching be done away with, the resumption of intercollegiate athletics is a wise course; but if athletics are allowed to interfere in any way with military training, either because of the demands on the time of those who are trying...
...Yale and Princeton have unofficially come out for intercollegiate athletics this spring. Harvard has yet to make known her position, but the vast majority of undergraduates are certainly heart and soul for some form of intercollegiate games. It has been well proved that to keep an interest in a sport it is necessary to meet rivals of a similar status and playing under similar eligibility rules. Harvard unofficially is unquestionably for the resumption of intercollegiate games...
That the University in has complete abolition of major sport teams has been in the wrong is useless to deny. It is hoped that those in control will be broad-mined enough to realize the mistake before spring and that we shall again have a baseball nine, a track team and a crew representing the University and taking part in outside contests under the West Point system...
...silver cigarette box, a whiskey and potass, and a beautiful woman hidden in the next room! If any cast could really take us back to those days, Mr. Faversham has chosen it. Miss Elliot is stupendously stunning, and almost convincing as Lady Algy. We suspect that, being a sport herself, she left Lord A. mainly because he was so refined when drunk, but during his sober moments he was, as played by Mr. Faversham, decidedly a charming and appealing person. These two, despite other names on the program, decidedly carried away the show. When they finally clasped at the last...
...will be fought as keenly as any formal game, even though the rewards of victory are slight. Those men who have been practising for a month have shown that team-play and spirit can be developed without the incentive of a definite rival to be beaten. Interest in the sport for itself has made the seven eager to practice. So, too, it welcomes the opportunity to meet the sailors. The debut of the informals in the Arena may lack the importance of a formal game, but not the rivalry...