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However, in spite of that one deplorable blunder, it must be remembered that the track team has always been one of the most successful branches of athletics at Harvard, and that there are few if any coaches that Harvard has ever had who in any branch of sport have turned out as many teams victorious against Yale as has Coach Lathrop...
...conditions of undergraduate life changes no less striking have taken place. Football was not in any sense an organized sport, and rowing was only followed for three or four weeks. The animal spirits were manifested in bonfires in the Yard, and in other pranks. This is now worked off in organized athletics, though there is no necessity for the "rough, violent, fierce sports commonly thought necessary to the development of martial qualities." The fact that over 1200 Harvard men served honorably in the Civil War, over 160 of them giving up their lives, is ample proof that the "martial spirit...
...cannot see that the serious position in which our intercollegiate sport has been placed is in any way affected by the announcement. It makes no difference whether the Faculty passed the vote as an expression of its own opinion, or whether the Association of Colleges passed it at the instigation of the Harvard authorities. In either case Harvard is the one most deeply concerned. Or if the Association, moved by some other college or university, took the step Independently and Harvard approved, where is the distinction...
...unaltered. There has been no assurance that the vote of the Association was any more than a bare majority, in which case we should still be at a disadvantage with our dearest rivals. But even granted that we should have good company in the experiment, its effect upon intercollegiate sport would be no less fatal...
...take a keen personal interest in them, and if their field is so restricted that they cease to be properly our athletic representatives, that personal interest will be gone. In its place will come more selfish interests that will drive us apart. The very decline of interest in intercollegiate sport will make our teams deteriorate and as they deteriorate the interest will continue to decline. The result is not nice to contemplate...