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...yachting terms, and occasionally provokes a smile in spite of its crude treatment. "Mad Antony's Wives," by R. W. Beach, a sad tale of life behind the footlights, shows a good deal of observation. All the elements of the genuine college story are combined in "The Crisis," the sport, the grind and the girl. They meet, act with customary heroism, and we must believe live happily ever afterwards...
...feel that the tendency to make the public more and more an item of first consideration in University exercises is doing us all a good deal of harm. The public might misunderstand the spirit of our fellowship as thoroughly as they have misunderstood the spirit of our sport...
...article entitled "Sport or Business?" W. James, Jr., '03, treats the athletic question from the point of view of one who believes that Harvard athletics are losing the true spirit of amateur sport through making "frantic attempts to beat Yale." This question is of such general interest, and is so ably dealt with in this article, that any condensed summary of its contents must be unsatisfactory. It will be taken up at length in a future issue of the CRIMSON...
North American Review--"Is Our National Congress Representative?," by S. J. Barrows '75; "The United States and the Late Lord Salisbury," by M. W. Hazeltine '62; "Is Football Good Sport?," by G. E. Merrill...
...THAN THE PLAYING WAS THE LACK OF SUPPORT FROM THE REST OF THE UNIVERSITY." The italics are mine; but they are not needed to show that here is an absence of all sense of proportion, and that exhortations based on this creed can never express the spirit of amateur sport. They plainly will and do express, however, that spirit which we once laughed at as the "high school spirit" or the "small college spirit;" and they lead to a mug-hunting which, though long since despised in individuals, you are now helping to make fashionable if prosecuted by the University...