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...Paul Withington '09, who is director of athletics at the University of Wisconsin, is endeavoring to re-institute intercollegiate rowing as a sport at the Western college and the prospects tend toward the resumption of the sport in 1918. The faculty of the university abolished intercollegiate rowing two years ago so that crew work has since been kept alive by interclass and intercollegiate events...
...first time in its history. Heretofore fall and spring rowing on the river has been the extent of the training at Tech., but with 50 candidates reporting last October and with the new location of the Institute near the river, rowing has been given a boom as a popular sport. As this winter rowing is a new departure, its future success or failure depends on the support it gets this year, and the present indications are that, although it breaks in on hockey and track, its future is assured...
...continuation this year of the scrub hockey series is altogether desirable. It offers to the novice, the "dub," a chance for sport and that competitive excitement without which all sport is barren. As in football and baseball occasionally a star is developed from an untrained man in the scrub series, as from the club crews rise 'varsity oars, and from handicap track meets point-winners for the team, so the chance is offered for unskilled players to learn in the scrub hockey games to become real stars...
...heard accusation that the conversation of Memorial hall and of other eating places frequented by members of the university is compounded solely of sports, women, and the weather, is extended by a writer in the "Dial" to cover all the conversational attempt of educated Americans. "Bring together a group of college men, graduates of the same institution, and what do they talk about?" he inquires. "The same things as the tired business men of theatrical disrepute, sport or women, business or politics in the littlest sense of the word...
...class will meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week. Requests for transfers from one sport to another should be made to Mr. Clark or Mr. Sullivan...