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Candidates for the Freshman lacrosse team were called out on Monday afternoon but only two men reported. This is doubtless due to the hesitation that many men feel about trying for a sport in which they have had no previous experience. As a matter of fact the game offers exceptional opportunities for inexperienced men. Few members of the present University team had ever played the game before coming to College...
...March it was voted, after long discussions in the Student Council and in the Committee, "To make hockey a major sport, carrying with it the award of the 'H'"; and in April it was voted "That the hockey 'H' be awarded to all men who have ever played for Harvard in a game against Yale...
...many important changes, and he had the satisfaction of seeing a marked improvement in the business of the athletic office, in the intelligence with which Harvard teams are managed, and in the success of those teams against their rivals. He worked hard and successfully to stimulate interest in athletic sport among students who need such sport for their bodily and mental health and have no thought of belonging to an organized team. In nearly all ways he left a much better athletic situation than he found. Fred Wadsworth Moore, A.B. '93, was appointed as Mr. Garcelon's successor...
...trouble with these precursors of spring is the comparative narrowness of their influence. Men considering only the esteem in which different insignia are held, lose sight of values. Crew and track are underestimated as a form of exercise and overestimated as a means to an "H," and the minor sports, although they open to the inexperienced an equal chance for exercise, are slighted. Of the remedies suggested to increase the practice of regular daily exercise among undergraduates, two at least are pertinent. In the first place all shall appreciate its necessity and benefits; in the second, having gained such appreciation...
...idea is that the Graduate Treasurer in conjunction with the Business School or the Economics Department shall organize a definite "course" in managership, wherein not only the practice but the principles of business dealing, accounting, correspondence, and the other incidents to the heavy managerial work of a Harvard major-sport can be systematically treated. For this the present rough-and-ready duties of the position might very properly be considered laboratory work. Such a course, however, would of itself presuppose an upset of the entire scheme of unhampered undergraduate competition. At least until a much more definite outline...