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...been found that hockey receives the greatest attention. For many years there have been keen contests between the Canadian colleges in this sport, and their proficiency has been seen by those American universities which have begun in recent years to compete with them. They also have contests in snowshoeing,--long cross-country walks which try the endurance of a man more than any other sport. This is the easiest of the three winter sports to learn, but it requires more hardihood and more endurance than either of the others...
With the erection of the new courts and grandstand at Divinity Field, tennis really becomes an organized sport in the University. Not only will the new facilities aid in development of better tennis teams, but they will strengthen the sport financially by means of admission charges to tournaments...
...past record of former Harvard players shows that tennis is a sport worthy of this expansion. Of the thirteen men who have won national championships in the United States since national tournaments were instituted in 1885, ten have been college graduates; and of the ten, eight were from Harvard, one from Cornell, and one from Yale. Not only has Harvard had a preponderance of national champions, but has always appeared in the "first tens" of ranking players; and last summer the University was represented by three men in the first group...
...view of the brilliant season of the hockey team, something may be said in justification of this branch of athletics as a major sport. Two facts stand out indisputably. Hockey at Harvard is, and has been, a highly successful sport. Several championships have been registered in it for the University; and a similar record is apparent with the Freshman teams. Secondly, it holds pre-eminence as a winter sport, especially since swimming is handicapped by the lack of a pool. Including managerial competitions and scrub teams, more than 200 men are concerned with hockey during the season, and this number...
...omission which one finds in the number is that although most of the con- tents deal with the minor sports, there is no article on the minor sport which has recently excited more enthusiasm than any other, boxing...