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...conference had little foundation in fact. I found a joyous, delightfully vigorous and magnetic atmosphere. The men from the various schools and colleges were a selected group, frankly and earnestly religious, but normally and intelligently so. The speaking was for the most part excellent; there was plenty of sport and recreation mingled with the Bible study and devotional meetings. I think every man who was there was glad that he had come and was the better and bigger for it. For my own part, I look forward immensely to going up to the conference again this year. A. P. FITCH...
Coach Haughton will be on the field every afternoon and will expect every football man who is not at present participating in any other sport to report regularly...
...Oxford and Cambridge, than which no universities have turned out finer, cleaner, more manly, more highly cultivated, and more practically trained scholars, statesmen, empire builders, or more generous enthusiasts for general athletics and clean sport--in Oxford and Cambridge the purpose is study, and the honors are paid to the scholar. There are no undergraduate newspapers, no class meetings, no college politics, no football rallies, no business managers, no claques for organized applause, no yell leaders, no dances, no social functions of the mass. Social intercourse during term between the sexes is strictly forbidden; and it is a matter...
...hoped that at the next meeting a large number of men will report. At this meeting, which will be held sometime before the April recess, the question of intercollegiate wrestling will be taken up, and, if the interest warrants it, wrestling will be regularly organized as a winter sport in the University and officers will be elected...
...soccer team has already begun its schedule of nine games. Soccer not only affords opportunity for getting into shape for spring football practice, but is in itself a game that is fast increasing in importance as an intercollegiate sport, and is becoming an important part of spring athletics in the University...