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There are at present 54 men in the University who have won the "H" in one or more of the five major sports, and two men who have been specially awarded the "H" one for tennis, the other for golf. In all, 59 "H's" have been awarded to present members of the University, several men having won the "H" in more than one sport. No man in the University at present has won his "H" in three sports, but there are five men, R. Harte '17, G. A. Percy '18, L. Saltonstall 3L., Moseley Taylor '18, and Westmore Willcox...
...sequence to failure of the purely amateur system of coaching the Yale authorities suggest the abandonment of intercollegiate sport. Supposing this were done. Supposing also that Princeton and Harvard joined with Yale in their radical step? The effects would be rather far reaching. Primarily we would see immense amphitheaters representing an enormous investment--$500,000 in the case of the Yale Bowl--standing as valueless relics. We would see the abrupt cessation of the income, with the equally immediate collapse of various non-productive' sports to the support of which this annual increment has been devoted...
...occurs to me that far better either than the elimination of paid coaches or the abandonment of intercollegiate sport would be a constructive campaign designed to retain the good that arises from association of our seats of learning upon the field of sport, and to exercise the bad. That evil exists it would be absurd to deny, but there is an overbalancing weight of desirable features. Were Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania to enlist themselves in a body designed to place a limit upon the salaries of coaches, the number of coaches engaged, team expenses--in short...
...following men make up the Council, in addition to the representatives elected by the classes on Tuesday: the presidents of the Senior, Junior and Sophomore classes; the captains and managers of the five major sport teams; the chief executive officers of the Advocate, CRIMSON, Illustrated, Lampoon and Monthly; three representatives from the Phi Beta Kappa Society; the president of the Phillips Brooks House Association; the chairman of (the committee on organizations; the chairman of the committee on Military Affairs the) president of the Musical Clubs Association, and the vice-president of the Union...
...gains, the everlasting fame of being leader in new fields of danger rests with the pioneer. Such a pioneer was Norman Prince whose courage and daring have doubly assured him a place among the heroes of this great struggle. When aviation was considered in this country as merely a sport for circus acrobats, Norman Prince foresaw the ultimate possibilities of the game, and made it his profession. At the outbreak of the European. War his pioneer spirit of bravery and sacrifice led him to organize a little band of nine aviators. As the leader of these first volunteers he made...