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Dean Briggs emphasizes the harmony existing between the Faculty and undergraduate members of the Committee. He points out that the inclination to turn sport into work is a fault which must be watched, yet it is deemed necessary by many graduates and undergraduates who cannot bear to see their College go down to defeat. Opposed to this body are the Corporation, the President, the Faculty, parents and a number of "thoughtful people who have watched with apprehension athletic sport overgrowing scholarship in what were designed to be institutions of learning...
...sentiment seems to have grown up that unless rowing was begun in the Freshman year there is no use in taking it up. If a man wants to row, lack of experience should never hold him back. The man who really wants to row can soon learn the sport...
Aside from this, the honor of representing the University in any sport is an incentive to study. The undergraduate members of this institution do not regard too favorably a man with athletic ability who fails to meet the requirements of the College office...
There is a good deal of feeling around College that basketball should be abolished as an intercollegiate sport at Harvard, because some men claim that they think the game, as it is played today, is bad. But these same men say that intercollegiate basketball should be allowed. What I want to know is, what the difference might be between the game as played between two colleges and the game as played between two classes? In my opinion if the game is dropped as an intercollegiate sport, the Athletic Committee should at least be consistent and abolish it entirely...
...dribbling it would improve the game more than a hundred per cent., and I am pretty certain that it would only take a little pressure to cause the Committee to abolish it. I should think that it would be much simpler, better, and pleasanter to try to better the sport through the Rules Committee than to hurt it by abolishing it; and I hope, at least, that this suggestion will meet with due consideration. R. P. JORDAN...