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...only upon his success of last season against Yale, but also upon the spirit which he infused into the team, and the idea which he worked on-that the baseball season is not a perpetual round of drudgery, but an opportunity so get the most enjoyment out of the sport and at the same time to develop a team capable of defeating our most important rivals...
...have heard of no steps taken toward making it available for use. It is hard to believe that the importance of a prompt payment of the debt on the Stadium is greater than that of supplying grounds for the men who want to play games for sport's sake...
...large majority of the universities and colleges of the East to submit the selection of football officials to a responsible central board, is a step which will have a very beneficial effect on the game. In football the officials have greater latitude than in any other important sport, and there is a correspondingly greater need that the men serving in this capacity should be the best obtainable. Increasing their number to three is a greater check on the players; but by supplementing this check with a carefully chosen body of officials, directly responsible to a central board, a strict...
...form of track athletics, but also any others who are looking for an agreeable form of exercise. The coaches have always been ready to give time to men who come to them without an impressive list of records, not merely from disinterested reasons, but, because in this branch of sport more than almost any other, men develop latent ability, and develop it so rapidly as to be of value to the team...
...order to assure its success, every man who is entitled to vote should make an effort to be present. The new plan is the outcome of a feeling that the choice of managers should be based upon a uniform system rather than that the authorities in each sport should select new assistants with no check except the nominal requirement of approval by the Athletic Committee. The voters cannot all be expected to know the candidates personally, nor are they always fitted to judge of the executive ability of the men proposed. They should not, however, feel that this excuses them...