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...athletics should send their names on a postal card to the Graduate Treasurer, Harvard Athletic Association, Cambridge, not later than Wednesday. This class is intended primarily for men who are not candidates for any team, and endeavors to promote general physical development rather than to prepare for any particular sport...
...announcement that the hockey management has effected an arrangement with the Boston Arena for the issue of season tickets is highly pleasing to all Harvard men interested in this sport. We pointed out in a recent editorial the need of better support for the team and urged that season tickets at reduced rates be placed on sale and also that certain sections of the Arena be set aside for the holders of these tickets. Precisely this has the hockey management done, and now Harvard men may witness the first five games at moderate cost and find seats together in regular...
...Garcelon read a paper on general athletics in New England, of particular interest because it dealt with a greater number of colleges and schools than any other sectional report. He found no abatement of interest in sport; an improvement in its administration, especially in the preparatory schools; and great progress everywhere in good sportsmanship...
Interest in hockey has doubled, many institutions taking it up, until it is now the most popular winter sport in New England...
...allow freshmen to play on representative varsity teams, and 60 per cent permitted no graduates to play. The training table has been abolished from 22 colleges with very satisfactory results, while no less than 70 per cent required physical examination of athletes prior to participation in university sport...