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...stories, "The Coward," by E. B. Sheldon '08, seems to the reviewer the most successful. The story of a reformed "sport" who becomes a clergyman, and ultimately, through fear of his inability to resist the attractions of the world, gives up everything, even love, to enter a religious order, is not by any means easy to handle, and the avoidance of sentimentality on the one hand and melodrama on the other deserves the highest praise. The dialogue, also, is handled with admirable directness and naturalness, and the characterization of the principal figures is excellent. Something of the same admirable restraint...
...spring, it seemed only a natural extension of our competition with them. Although we expect victory in the track-meet today, we shall watch the performances with interest as a basis for estimating our chances in the Mott Haven and intercollegiate meets which are to follow. In no other sport are the possibilities for developing men quickly so great as in track athletics, and the opportunity for bringing out these men by actual competition is one of the most important objects of the games today...
Overlooking several similar inaccuracies which, however, detract materially from the value of the article, we do feel that many of the general conclusions at which Mr. Whitney arrives are true, and hurt the more because they are aimed at tender spots. "There is always slandering of one sport or another, always some official or specially appointed committee of this, or that, or the other branch of athletics. There is always some unpleasant reflection on sport in the morning papers with the Cambridge date line." And how true those statements are. In the past we graduates and undergraduates, athletes...
...relations have been noticed more and more, and the third baseball game, which has been arranged in case of a tie is an adequate proof of this fact. I agree with Mr. Morse that a football game should be arranged. To make our relations still closer another branch of sport has been adopted, namely, rowing, which it is our desire to establish on an equality with Harvard and Yale...
...several years at least. The cry against college athletics is that they afford only a comparatively few men helpful exercise, and yet by this single, narrow recommendation, more Harvard men than participate in training for any two of the major teams are deprived of their opportunity to enter sport. It is indeed a near-sighted policy, to blindly insist upon the payment of the Stadium debt to the exclusion of improvements and extensions so obviously necessary. We realize that the hands of the present Athletic Committee are tied, but we hope when the new Committee assumes control, it will assert...