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...University lacrosse team will play the first game of its southern trip with Johns Hopkins at Baltimore, Md., this afternoon. As lacrosse is a prominent sport at Johns Hopkins, excellent teams are turned out, and the game today should be close. Last year Johns Hopkins was victorious by the score...
More men are needed for the Senior crew. On several days last week not enough men reported to make up a first eight. Such miserable support of a University major sport is disgraceful. Enough men should come out to form not only a first, but also a second crew. The season for those who report now will be very short, something over three weeks before the class race. Every one not engaged in other athletics should not lose this chance for splendid exercise...
...truly amazing to what an extent undergraduate interest in a minor sport depends on the success of the team which represents it. For example, the University fencing team for five or six years ranked very low in the intercollegiate meet. Last year it was better, and so far this year it has done remarkable well; as a result the number of men who fence has increased from a dozen in 1908 to thirty...
...minor sports exist primarily for the pleasure and exercise of those who take part in them. Sport for the sake of victory alone has much in common with prize-fighting. It is valuable in all forms of sport to have system and definiteness; organized teams and outside contests are excellent means to obtain them, but they should be secondary. The tail has wagged the dog for a long time at Harvard...
...usual undergraduate view of this matter is not far to sock. Men want "activities" and "success." They forget that college is a place of training, where athletics are good in so far--and no farther--as they make for health of mind and body. Therefore success in a sport means no more than bodily health and a mind trained to do something well. When a man talks much about activities, it implies either a great deal of energy, or a desire to see his name in print. The reasons for estimating the value of a sport by Harvard's success...