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Success in Intercollegiate Sport...
...year was, on the whole, peaceful: the committee's relation to the Faculty and to the Governing Boards was never seriously disturbed; and its already good understanding with the students continued. Moreover, in intercollegiate sport the year brought unusual success. In football, Mr. Haughton, an unpaid coach, put the finest spirit into a young and inexperienced team, got the best work out of it, and won. In hockey, the University team showed great and efficient strength. In track athletics, the team lost the dual games with Yale, but came out first at the intercollegiate track meet with the largest score...
...details. Nevertheless, the committee held fourteen meetings in the academic year. The worst weakness of the committee as a working body lies in the difficulty of securing regular attendance from graduates who are not members of the Faculty. The graduate contingent of men who at College knew athletic sport from the inside, and who now can look at it through the perspective of middle life, is essential to a balanced organization; no one of these three gentlemen attends a single meeting without showing himself valuable if not invaluable; the trouble is that the professional or business engagements...
...ever made out, it will not be because they kill a man now and then (though the risk of physical injury should be studiously reduced); it will be because they appear at times to paralyze the honor of contestants and spectators. I write as an enthusiastic believer in intercollegiate sports, who would see them not merely maintained, but maintained at such a level as shall keep them above legitimate question. These sports at their best have an immense educational power in every part of education that is not dependent on books or on works of art; but we persistently throw...
...football," President Eliot wrote in 1893, "has made it easy to collect large sums of gate-money. . . . The money thus easily got is often wastefully and ineffectively spent." It is easy for young men to acquire a feeling that every expenditure nearly or remotely connected with organized athletic sport should be charged to the Harvard Athletic Association: that they should be liberally supplied with all clothing which they may possibly need in a game; and that when the season is over they should have a dinner and a theatre party, and should send the Athletic Association the bill. There...