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...sport has a "green" man a better chance to develop and to attain final success than in track. Athletic history is full of instances where a man of no experience has gone out in his Freshman year and has become a first class track athlete before his graduation...
...class is open to all members of the University, and is intended primarily for the general development of men not engaged in any regular athletic sport. This year the work of wand and dumbbell exercise will be varied by gymnastic dancing. Mr. Schrader, the instructor, will be at Hemenway Gymnasium daily from 4 to 6 o'clock to confer with students in regard to the class...
Regular work for all candidates for the University and Freshman lacrosse squads will begin on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. All men who hope to make either team in the spring and who are not participating in a regular fall sport are expected to report for practice at this time...
...athletic sports are highly organized in Harvard University, and are usually maintained without resort to contributions from undergraduates, the gate money taken at football and baseball games supporting all the major sports and all the minor sports. The variety of sports is great; so that the individual student has a wide choice, and a large majority of the students enlist in some sport or other...
...While a sport that is confined to a few men and that has comparatively few followers in the University cannot expect the support a more popular sport receives, it has a right to expect that a reasonable share of its necessary expenses will be paid by the institution it represents. Golf comes under this head; the team has made a creditable showing and its complaint is not without justification...