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...Garcelon L.'95 was the last speaker. A man has more vigor and more energy when he leaves the University if he takes part in athletics, said Mr. Garcelon, and every man should be urged to do so. For that reason the minor sports, or any clean and wholesome sport in which men are interested and which can call out the best players in the University to represent it, should be kept and encouraged, that Harvard may send out men better equipped for life in every way. Applause and enthusiasm are always good things, but what we want...
When the Athletic Committee requested the appointment of an undergraduate committee to confer with Faculty members and with the Athletic Committee on the present tangled situation, we expressed some regret that final action on the winter sport proposal had not been taken before a further move was contemplated. We did not intend, however, to cast any reflections on the wisdom or the necessity of the appointment of such a committee...
There is one more point that needs to be made clear before the Athletic Committee takes action on the winter sport question. Throughout this unfortunate discussion the Faculty has taken great pains to point out individually on every possible occasion that it is not as a body hostile to athletics. In every instance intercollegiate contests have been carefully distinguished...
...undergraduates, on the other hand, have maintained that such a distinction is not altogether possible, and that any action that cripples intercollegiate sports will cripple the so-called "intramural" as well. We hear a great deal about ideal athletic conditions in England and we are asked to imitate their system of general participation. This we are trying to do; but once abolish the intercollegiate element and what will become of the sport as a whole...
...names of all the undergraduates. This is an undergraduate movement, an effort to set on foot an effective remedy for athletic distraction. If it fails, the Faculty's remedy will be the result. If it succeeds, the undergraduates themselves will be responsible for the maintenance of their sport...