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...distances. No doubt each has something to learn from the other. But we Oxford and Cambridge University men, like our athletic brethren with whom we have competed on the other side of the water, have taken up athletics not for a career or a profession but for exercise and sport. Nothing showed this better than the characteristic remark made by Garnier when he was told that he had been beaten on the tape in the hurdles: "Well, I'm sorry," he said, "but after all it was a good race." Our duty as university athletes is, to adapt the words...
...consider for a moment the amount of risk incurred. Even if not unduly great, it is nevertheless more than in any other sport, because the strain is admittedly more severe, and this too when the men engaged are physically sound, and in good condition. Think for a moment of the risk to a man who is perhaps not in the best of condition, or who has perhaps some slight physical imperfection. This should not be allowed to happen you will say, and should not be considered. It has happened, however, more than once. It is a very difficult matter...
...ought to be that a Harvard game is a University event; that what supports the teams is the enthusiasm of the whole body of undergraduates and graduates; that the contributor to athletics does not contribute in order to get the preference of tickets, but for the furtherance of a sport in which he is interested. The present system does not secure an audience which is distinctly from the University communities: near me on the grand stand sat scores of people who were simply members of an outside public interested in a great sport. It is right for the public...
...many years Harvard's reputation on the track was up-held by a few stars who possessed the happy faculty of invariably carrying all before them. In those early days of track athletics, before college enthusiasm for that branch of sport was roused, it was not unusual for Harvard to be represented in the dual games with Yale by a team of not more than a dozen men. In fact, not many more than that number took the trouble to train for the team. Fortunately such a condition of affairs is entirely unknown today. It took only...
...while the officers of instruction and administrators of their Alma Mater, the men who make Harvard an institution worth going to and worthy cheering for are hidden away in remote corners. The present arrangement is not true to higher principles, is humiliating to Harvard, and at variance with collegiate sport. Unless we adhere to these principles, I admit that the athletic contests are not collegiate contests at all, but professional games carried on by a society of students for materialistic ends. I have no doubt that the great body of undergraduates and graduates, if they have at all thought...