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...class crews. Can it be that class spirit has ebbed so low that only the glamour of the University "H" will induce men to row on a chilly afternoon? It seems almost as if undergraduates had given up the idea of participating in athletics for the sake of the sport and exercise, not to mention the honor of the class. That it takes some time to develop a crew is almost too well known to require comment, and it is strange indeed that there are not eight men in the Senior and Junior classes who appreciate the responsibility which this...
...Brookline tank and on the caprice of the owners of private tanks of inadequate size in Cambridge. For a coach the team has had nobody. As we have already pointed out, very little more pressure will push swimming down the slide after basketball, and one more excellent minor sport will be lost...
...worth noting that the wrestling team, an organization new with the College year, has already developed sufficiently the association has given several creditable performances and shown that it deserves a place among the minor sports. It even seems likely that if the interest in wrestling is maintained we may be allowed to enter a team in intercollegiate contests next year. This success has been made possible because of the excellence of the sport, which is not only one of the best forms of training for football men, but furnishes vigorous exercise in the winter months when it is otherwise least...
Saturday the University swimming team was subjected to humiliating defeat by the University of Pennsylvania, scoring only 9 points to 44. It is true that swimming is a minor sport, but it is certainly no credit to a great University to have any of its teams, no matter how unimportant, so completely outclass,--to which fact the fate of basketball bears abundant testimony. Such a defeat is particularly provoking when, as in this case, it is directly traceable to three simple causes:--men on probation, the two-period rule, and the lack of a swimming tank. The first...
...number also contains a story by J.H. Braddock'10, and a poem by J.S. Reed '10, and miscellaneous illustrated articles on such subjects as "The New Theatre" (Macgowan '11), "Hockey as a Major Sport" (Foster '11), and "Progress at Chapel" (Henderson...