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...Track Committee for discussion at its regular meeting yesterday. The committee wishes to argue the deductions of the article in no way. It has at heart the interest of Harvard track athletics, and its members have been chosen with the object in view of furthering the welfare of the sport. The faults which the CRIMSON article wished to have investigated have been considered and are being worked out to the best ability of its members. The handicap of drawing few preparatory school stars together with a lack of undergraduate interest is difficult to overcome. Constructive suggestions would be welcomed...
...track team at present is in a predicament similar to the one just described. Nothing more than a live interest on the part of both undergraduates and graduates is needed to obviate the present difficulties. No other sport gives one so many thrills or has such moments of tense excitement as track. Whether it is an indoor meet or the intercollegiates at the Stadium, the spectators are assured at least one heart-breaking finish or a battle royal between two pole-vaulters. The imperative need today is a greater and more active support for the team. There are plenty...
...competition for second assistant manager of the University track team will begin next Monday, March 19, at 1.30 o'clock, when all candidates will report at the H. A. A. Office. This competition is open to all Sophomores and is the last major sport manager competition in which 1919 men may participate. The competition will be decided at the time of the Yale meet...
Form must be studied conscientiously first, last and all the time. No man with poor form was ever a champion, and good form in any sport is the easiest and most natural way to do that thing best." Form may be studied through running beside or behind other men or by watching one's shadow. Straight ahead leg and foot action is the right sort. In order to lift the knees properly the thighs should be developed by the aid of exercises. Arm action must also be studied...
...that unwillingness that has become an inability to see straight, to look at things from a healthy point of view; it points to a decadent standard among those whose opinion influences not alone the standard of morals for the community, but the standard of politics, of art, of sport, and of all life; it points to a negligence which becomes criminal when it allows young girls and young men who are to become leaders when of age to start their careers by publicly proclaiming that they approve of vice and immorality being shoved forward into the limelight to be seen...