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...there any need for such drastic economy in the management of our athletic finances as would cut off from the four or five minor sports together so meagre a sum as twelve or fifteen hundred dollars a year? We have, to be sure, a debt of $70,000 on the Stadium to pay off, and many improvements to make on Soldiers Field. Undoubtedly if we wish to apply strict business principles to this case, the thing to do is to adopt at once the most stringent economy and thus pay the debt and make the improvements at the earliest possible...
...belief is true that Princeton has tried to do this...' By 'systematic attempts to berattle opponents,' we judge is meant the 'continued cheering and organized noise-making' mentioned in the same editorial. Without entering here upon a lengthy discussion of cheering from the standpoint of the welfare of sport, we will say that cheering is a recognized means of supporting a team in the field; that by this means support is given at almost every university or college of which we have knowledge. Princeton has always believed in heartily supporting her representatives on the field. During the Harvard game, cheering...
...compelled to reply. If we have handled the statements with small delicacy, it is because incorrect statements cannot be handled with gloves. We sincerely hope and trust that the light which has been thrown upon the subject will clear away every suspicion that Princeton employs unsportsmanlike methods in any sport or is in any way pursuing a policy which would injure intercollegiate sport...
There is no doubt in my mind about the benents of cheering to an athletic team, no matter in what branch or sport it may be. There always come times in college competition of all sorts when a team or an individual does more than it was believed possible; and, although this may be said to have been due to any number of causes, the real one was that the individual or the members of the team had, for perhaps but an instant, had one ear open to the grandstand and had received the outside encouragement...
...Conference will be held at East Northfield, Mass, this summer during the ten days immediately following the close of college, July 1 to July 10, inclusive. As in previous years, conferences will be held each morning and evening, but the afternoons will be given up to various kinds of sport...