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...conditions under which competitive sports are carried on, added publicity that comes from journalistic emphasis on athletics as a source of news, the large pecuniary profits that may go with professionalism, the intense rivalries between communities and between educational institutions in support of their athletes' prowess, all these have had the effeet of making maintenance of amateur sport with its traditional indifference to monetary reward more difficult than if used to be. "Competition for the love of sport" is the essence of amateurism. According to the committee: and it is a form of competition that well wishers of athletes honor...
Tennis as an organized sport and as a game universally played by men in the University is on the ascendancy. The playing of the University tennis team has been characterized by a brilliancy of which we may well be proud. The high standard of the team's playing should be maintained, and with this in view it is encouraging to see organized tennis among the Freshmen. Recognition of merit is now assured in the awarding of tennis "numerals" to members of a Freshman tennis team...
...CRIMSON congratulates R. N. Williams 2d, '16 on his election as captain of the University tennis team. For two seasons he has played an excellent game and has been the mainstay of the team. By winning the intercollegiate championship he has earned the right to wear a major sport "H". The work of the team in general has also been very gratifying; under Captain Williams may it continue...
...means. What Cornell has done in developing raw material into record breaking runners, can be done in Cambridge as well as in Ithaca. The University team can be made a contender in the next intercollegiate by hard work and a general awakening of interest in track as a sport. Most men have the makings of track athletes in one of the many branches of the sport. But even the best latent sprinters and embryo shot-putters will remain in oblivion if they do not come out for track earnestly. Cornell's victory is an object lesson in the value...
...discussed, put to a vote of the whole Council, and according to their recommendation, the Athletic Committee voted that men can write signed articles for the papers only with the permission of the Chairman of the Athletic Committee and the Chairman of the Graduate Advisory Committee of the respective sport. The question of lengthening the Christmas recess and shifting the Easter recess to the first week in April was recommended to the Faculty, but no definite action has been taken as yet. At the request of Mr. Brandegee, the following committee was appointed to confer with him about Senior advisers...