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...past season there seems to be but a very slight range of opinion. This may be partly due to the predominance of interest in the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton teams, but it also seems in keeping with the relative amount of emphasis and effort put upon the sport by these three colleges. The lack of ice has been hard upon the smaller colleges, so that their men have had little chance to develop. Even the choice for the second team men includes only one other college, two Dartmouth players...
...question of having a coach for the gymnastic team is brought to our attention by a communication printed in another column. It is a point well-urged and the CRIMSON feels justified in upholding the sentiment expressed. That the gymnastic team would be one of the successful minor sports under favorable conditions is evidenced by the comparatively large number of men who consistently support the team in spite of the handicaps under which it works. Gymnastics offers unexcelled opportunities for physical training, but to maintain a team any longer under conditions so unfavorable that it cannot do honor...
...news item, "Gymnastic Team Loses," and in the March 6 issue another, "Brown Won in Gymnastics." Harvard has been defeated in gymnastics by Brown and Amherst. This has been the regular story for several years. Nobody seems to care what kind of showing we make in this branch of sport...
...small colleges only who have coaches for their gymnastic teams. Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Annapolis, all consider this branch of sport important enough to have coaches. Dr. Schrader has very kindly helped the Harvard team, when he could find the time, but his is too busy to aid the men adequately...
Fifteen to twenty men came out for the wrestling team as compared with fourteen for the gymnastic team, which shows that the interest in both sports is about the same. Yet of the two only the wrestling team has a coach. The present objection to having a coach seems to be that the Gymnastic Association is not on a paying basis, and that more expense is not warranted. Is this reason more valid for this branch of sport than for the wrestling, which also yields a deficit annually? Besides, the gymnastic associations do not pay in the colleges where they...