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...statement one hears occasionally to the effect that a Harvard team cannot win an uphill game. It is work of this sort that attracts the support of the undergraduates to a team. A continuation of hockey teams such as this year's should make hockey a major sport before many years are passed...
...first time in the history of the sport at Harvard the services of a professional-coach have been secured. Mr. Charles Burgess, instructor at the Woodland Golf Club, will act in this capacity. Mr. Burgess has played the game fifteen years as a member of the Dundee and the Newcastle Independents, the latter having a consistently good record in the Final Cup Series, which attract in England as much interest as the professional baseball leagues in America. W. S. Seamans, Jr., '11, captain of the University team, P. Withington '09, assistant graduate treasurer of athletics, and Coach Burgess will address...
...several narrow escapes form infuriated elephants and rhinos, once stopping a charging elephant only ten feet off. Buffaloes, also, were very dangerous. Lion hunting, though Colby said, is the finest sport of all, for the hunter is pitted against another trained hunter who knows much more about it than he does. Lions are crafty, and often seem cowardly, for they know that their charge is dangerous only within 40 yards. Once started, however, nothing but instant death can stop them...
...sake. That it fulfills its purpose is evinced by the fact that the membership of the class is three times as great as it was last year. Most of these men are Freshmen, and all are more or less inexperienced, for no man engaged in organized sport is allowed to join the class. The fact that so many men have availed themselves of this opportunity is a hopeful sign that at last the College as a whole is beginning to appreciate that a healthy body is one of the greatest factors in developing and maintaining a vigorous, active brain...
From another point of view, this movement may be considered to disprove largely the charge so often made against American athletics, namely, that they are not undertaken for the sake of sport itself, but only from a desire for victory and fame...