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...swimming team is badly in need of more candidates. To be sure the chances of a championship in the water sports are bound to be greatly reduced as long as we are without a University tank; but without proper support the team will be helplessly handicapped. We are about to meet Yale, - weak in the plunging and diving events and yet without candidates for the distance swims. But the season is only just begun; and there is still time for the team to acquit itself with a creditable record, if more men can be found to take an active interest...
...deplorably unsuccessful season that our basketball team has just gone through only serves to emphasize the inadequacy of the Hemenway Gymnasium for any kind of organized sport. Basketball deserves better support than it now receives, but until the candidates can be better accommodated the game is not very likely to flourish. When the building has been thoroughly renovated, conditions will be somewhat better; but we await in patient hope the time when some loyal graduate will present us with a new gymnasium, or at least put the present one into such shape that we shall not be obliged to receive...
...scrub hockey series, which was unfortunately forestalled by the breaking up of winter; last fall 14 eight-oared crews took part in the inter-dormitory bumping races; and 214 men ran in the fall handicap meet. Such figures as these certainly show no lack of interest in strictly intercollegiate sport...
Scrub series have now been arranged by the management of both the hockey and basketball teams. Everything possible has been done to promote these sports within the University and it only remains for the University, by its support, to make the efforts worth while. Last year successful scrub series were played in both the winter games, giving exercise and enjoyment to 70 men in basketball, and to 60 men who preferred the outdoor sport. Beside the actual pleasure to be derived from the games, there is every reason to hope that this year the entry list will be greater than...
...principal reasons advanced by the Faculty in favor of cutting down the number of intercollegiate contests is a belief that intracollegiate athletics, giving an opportunity for every man to indulge in "sport for sport's sake," cannot exist beside the overwhelming interest in games between the colleges. They also believe that the undergraduates are not unanimously opposed to a curtailment of schedules. Every opportunity that is lost to disprove these beliefs helps just so much to defeat our own aims...