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...athletic sense Freshman year is given to a trying-out process through which lies the surest way to later success. In return for the attention which is given in every sport by competent coaches, candidates for the teams are expected to do their part by reporting regularly and by keeping themselves in good physical condition and in right relations with the College Office...
...Garcelon was the first speaker, and he emphasized the importance of track athletics. In no other sport is there as great an opportunity for a man to show his persistence and determination. This spirit will gradually pervade all activities and will prove a powerful assistance in after-life...
...raising the price of H. A. A. tickets. As the demand for them is pretty constant, and advance of from $3 to $5 would probably not result in a greatly decreased sale. Even this problematical decrease could be met by having the tickets admit to games in other sports than football, baseball and track. Since the amount taken up in gate-receipts at games played by the hockey team on Soldiers Field during the past season alone amounted to $418, most of which came from undergraduates, it is apparent that its inclusion would provide a substantial inducement to purchasers...
Obliging the manager conducting the competition to make a final report to the "H" men of the sport, or even to the Student Council, stating his decision and reasons, although it undoubtedly eliminates the possibility of graft, cannot cure an evil in itself incurable. We should strike at the root. The fairest and most effective remedy seems to leave the whole matter to the Student Council. Abolish competitions; let the applicants for each managership hand their names in to the manager; let him, after investigation, report to the Student Council decide, upon their past records. This plan has been found...
There short sketches fill out this number. "The importance of Being a Grind" by W. C. Greene, and its companion piece. "The Importance of Being a Sport," by H. E. Porter, remind us of one of the best Advocate periods,--some fifteen years ago, when Mr. Flandran and his contemporaries were describing Harvard Types." But with this difference today the dissecting of the victim seems kindlier; the sareasm almost genral...