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...have special seats for themselves and their immediate families, but the privilege should extend no further. It is an abuse to treat their friends among graduates and undergraduates as a privileged class, yet their friends put very great pressure upon them for special seats. The whole spirit of good sport rests upon equal opportunities to all, both in playing the game and seeing it. Certainly, any system is a viscious one which deprives the undergraduates of their legitimate right to see the games under the most favorable conditions...
...answer to an attack on athletics before the Mass. Schoolmasters' Club last Saturday, Professor A. B. Hart spoke informally on behalf of athletics. He characterized college and school sports as a great force making for righteousness and said that training was a moral safeguard. Harvard's intellectual and moral standard's are higher today than they were twenty years ago which would not be true were athletics injurious. Athletic sport makes the student stand forth...
...evening the grounds will be finely illuminated and there will be singing by American and German clubs and varied gymnastic exhibitions. Fine sport is promised in the water events, including as they do, tub-racing, tilting, riding...
...evening the grounds will be finely illuminated and there will be singing by American and German clubs and varied gymnastic exhibitions. Fine sport is promised in the water events, including asthey do, tub-racing, tilting, riding...
...America the tendency both in school and college is to narrow the number of those who take regular athletic training to those who find some hope of "getting on the team." In England there are dozens of "teams" in each school and the goal is good health and honest sport rather than winning a game. It is this spirit that progressive universities such as Harvard and Yale should foster in the preparatory schools, if necessary, by arbitrarily requiring a certain amount of physical development...