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...forms of sport cross-country running places the greatest strain upon the heart and lungs, and for no other reason than this, a competent trainer and coach should be provided to prevent over-work on the part of inexperienced athletes. As a training-school for distance men, cross-country running plays an important part in promoting the success of the track team. This may perhaps be emphasized by the fact that in the seven years from 1902 to 1908, Cornell won the intercollegiate run each year and placed 21 men in the mile and two-mile races of the intercollegiate...
...They should work hard, but take joy in competition. Captain Jaques of the cross-country them then spoke on the work. In this numbers is one of the essentials. Another is spirit. These produce the winning team. Coach Shrubb stated that the prospects for this year are good. This sport is one of the hardest of games, however, and work must be done with a vim to make it a success. Style is very important in order that a man should be able to run miles without tiring himself. Above all things, the candidates for the team should work faithfully...
Lacrosse shows the greatest increase in expenditure. This was due to the team's having for the first time a training table. A further outlay was necessitated by the inauguration of Freshman lacrosse and association football teams. The cost of the latter sport increased and will probably continue to do so, for it is the desire of the athletic authorities to make it more general...
...after long consideration the committee voted: "That basketball be abolished as an intercollegiate sport in Harvard College." The game has not flourished here, and is regarded by many competent critics as among the least desirable of athletic sports in this part of the country...
...more rigid discipline, if more careful oversight and a closer intercourse between instructors and students are provided. This he advocates as very necessary in Freshman year, the conditions of which largely determine a man's college career. Football, President Lowell says, to be a permanent institution, should be a sport pursued by a large part of the undergraduate body and a College team should represent the best players of this large body and should not be "a trained band of gladiators, maintained solely for public contests against similar bands from other colleges...