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...Harvard's track athletic interests for the ensuing year is a wise choice, and one which will receive the support of the undergraduates. If ever a man of energy is needed it is for this position. Experience has shown that proficiency in track athletics more than in any other sport is liable to be of a "dark-horse" nature, to crop out in quarters where least expected, and a captain's work consists in searching out just such material and testing its unknown qualities. The track captain is in a constantly restless condition. No matter how good a necleus...
Cricket is a sport which has always been in somewhat this position here, and it is probable that the feeling among the players that it didn't affect the University much whether they won or lost, has been responsible for many Harvard defeats in the past. Last year there were a number of exceptionally good and enthusiastic cricketers in college, and the result was that the game had a temporary boom, occupied the minds of a number of men throughout a longer preparation than usual, and finally ended the season with a clean record of victories. This year the example...
...should go forth in June qualified in some way to be of more service to his country than merely to shoulder a rifle and go into an awkward squad. Every man should go forth with the feeling that he has denied himself a few hours of other kinds of sport or pleasure, in this period of actual warfare, and has helped to prove his devotion to the cause of freedom and to the principles of the great republic...
...indispensible to the rowing interests of the whole University, and calls for universal recognition and support. If proof of this is needed look at the number of men now with the 'Varsity squad who were developed entirely by their Weld training. That only those who actively participate in a sport should be interested in it to the point of contributing toward it support, is illogical. Thus the debt of the club should not rest entirely on those who use the boat house...
...indeed to be regretted. His effots in behalf of Harvard rowing have won for him the gratitude of the University, but it is not only for instruction in oarsmanship that rowing men have to thank him. It is for the example he has given of hearty, healthy enjoyment of sport for sport's sake, an example of unexaggerated amateurism...