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...this rule restricting athletes to only two periods of sport affects, as the CRIMSON says, only a few men. These are the athletic "cream"--the natural athletes. They are the men who enter intelligently into athletics. Do you suppose that any man who is physically capable of representing the University in three periods of sport, has not enough sense to look after his own physical condition? Such men cannot be injured by too much exercise. They thrive...
...argument that constant sport turns a man from his studies is equally absurd. If a man wants to study, there is plenty of time to do so; and if he doesn't wish to study more than the minimum required, no restriction of the kind that this rule enforces will compel him, or even incline him, to study more. There is plenty of time for a man to play on three University teams and get a degree "cum laude." It is merely a personal matter...
...Cambridge Harvard will for the present be unable to renew the two-year agreement. On the following day Professor White, therefore, notified the athletic authorities at Yale that Harvard was forced to discontinue the two-year agreement between the two universities for contests in the four main branches of sport on its expiration the 15th of next March...
...fourth celebration of the Olympic games will be held in July, 1908, in London. The project is receiving enthusiastic support. Valuable prizes will be offered, and as many forms of sport as is practicable will be included in the order of events...
...give a varsity team a send-off. Such send-offs would be as common as frogs in a millpond. Soldiers Field, even in the season, is as dead as a desert except within or near the Stadium; but University Park and the various private college fields are beehives of sport. Nor does the Oxford man do any less studying than the Harvard...