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...print on another page a communication from the president of the Varsity Club starting a movement to make hockey a major sport. Mr. Thayer has the backing of a great many graduates and he feels sure that the sentiment among them is strongly in favor of adding the Canadian game to the present list of four major sports. The only remaining, and at the same time the most important, point is to inquire the opinion of undergraduates. For this purpose there will be a meeting of the entire Student Council tomorrow evening, to vote on the matter...
...must have been evident to our readers during the past winter the CRIMSON has taken a strong position in favor of hockey. We think that it is a game which fills, as no other sport can, the interval between football and the spring athletic activities...
...meeting of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports held yesterday afternoon, it was decided to accept swimming as a minor sport at the University...
...University team, M. Leslabay, coach of the team, Mr. W. F. Garcelon L.'95, Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association, J. A. McLaughlin 1G., captain of the team last year, and A. P. Cushing '78. All gave interesting reminiscences of their past experiences in fencing, showed how rapidly the sport is increasing in popularity, and wished the team success for the ensuing year...
Swimming as a sport was abolished at Harvard in 1909 because of the lack of sufficient facilities. Since the new tank was installed in the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., the undergraduates interested in the sport held a series of informal meets, which brought out a stock of good material. Plans for next year's season include a system of professional coaching, and meets with Amherst, Andover, Brookline Gymnasium, Brown, Waltham Swimming Club, Williams, and Yale...