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...high ideal of intercollegiate sport in these days is not satisfied alone with success in contests with outside rivals but is concerned as well in the number of men that actively engage in the various sports and reap the benefit of vigorous athletic exercise in competition within the University. This does not imply any diminution of effort in striving to compete successfully with your neighbor in the big contests of the year; it does imply, however, an attempt to make athletics more a regular part of the daily occupation of a student by providing athletic exercise within the limits...
...particular concern at present is the outdoor winter sports. The inadequate facilities for indoor sports in the Hemenway Gymnasium and the growing feeling against basketball make it imperative that the outdoor sports be placed as largely as possible at the service of those who play for the fun of it and for the fresh air it puts into their lungs. Through a chain of unfortunate circumstances scrub hockey was either neglected or prevented last year. The opportunities afforded this year by the ice on the river near the boat houses will relieve the congestion which has existed in the Stadium...
...Towards the end of the nineteenth century all this changed very suddenly. The man who a few years before would have been the intellectual idol of his fellows came to be regarded with indifference, if not with suspicion. Now it is no longer success in oratory, but success in sport, that is over-idolized. There is no doubt that we should be a great deal better off if public attention were more largely fixed on the intellectual prizes and less upon the athletic ones...
...criticising the dormitory as a unit for scrub sport, it must be remembered that this year, which is the poorest so far in point of numbers, over one hundred men competed in the bumping races. A scrub sport of any sort that employs one hundred men in competitive exercise for a month can hardly be called unsuccessful. One thing is certain: there have never been so many men rowing under any other system in the University as there has been under the dormitory system this year. Until a very much better plan can be evolved, enthusiastic and careful supervision...
...approach the ideal where all men will accept the chance to strengthen their bodies in good, wholesome games and develop a competitive spirit by measuring their ability with others. When we have twice the number of men playing class football as at present it will not only provide sport of the right sort for just so many more men, but it will increase the value of their exercise as the competition becomes keener. This, moreover, will have an ultimate effect on the University squads...