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...minor and class sports I realize the value of the training table to be equally great as in the case of the varsity sport; but, as the minor sports are run on a smaller scale, let them have their training table with a proportionately less expensive outlay and make it as near the average board as possible. Thus they would receive all the advantages of this institution and escape all censure for extravagance...
...training table has an even more definite value than that of providing good food. It tends to stimulate sociability and good fellowship, two important factors in producing team play. It is all very well to say that the men must eventually "go stale from having the sport served up as a necessary conversational accompaniment to every meal," but there is a far more undesirable state of affairs, wherein an athlete, eating at a private table, is plied with questions in regard to the team, and, as the centre of an inquisitive group, is never allowed to forget his athletic connections...
...there are sports where the professional can defeat the amateur every time, such as baseball, rowing, and track athletics. When Yale employed Mr. Lush Harvard had a long string of baseball victories to her credit; yet in one season, Mr. Lush turned out a nine from poor material which defeated a Harvard nine of veteran calibre, coached under an amateur system. The converse, nearly, is true in rowing, though Mr. Wray had even a more difficult task, because he had to oppose a professional system of marked success. Yet Mr. Wray's success here and his superiority over his amateur...
...like to see Harvard abandon her professional coaches unless the other colleges are willing to do so also. Harvard would then be at such an obvious disadvantage that candidates for the teams would from the beginning see the possibility, even probability of defeat, which is more demoralizing to enthusiastic sport than any ethical disadvantage of a professional coach. Let each college abandon professional coaches and all will meet on perfectly fair grounds. Until then I sincerely hope Harvard will stick to the policy she has now adopted--and not allow her teams to meet others on unfair grounds...
...CRIMSON has asked for information about the rule limiting participation in intercollegiate athletics to two periods of sport in any one academic year...