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...improved steadily and has finally won the intercollegiate championship by defeating teams which had three or four times as many candidates to choose from. All this has been done under difficulties. There never has been any crease or special field of any kind set apart for the sport in the University, and as the crease in allston, which has formerly been used, was not available this year, the men have had to practice wherever and whenever they could. The important matches have all been won by plucky, uphill work, especially on the part...
...view of these circumstances it seems as though the game ought to be more generally recogized, and at least ought to have some regular place for practice next year. It is the kind of sport which President Eliot strongly advocated in his recent talk on athletics, requiring skill before strength and not calling for such hard or extensive training as to necessitate neglect of college work or other interests...
...Holmes Field, has just returned from a trip abroad and is made up entirely of old and experienced men. A good game of lacrosse may therefore be expected, and, considering the earnest, persistent way in which the Harvard organization has worked for the last three years to introduce the sport into the University and to gain recognition as a University team, the CRIMSON would like to see all who can do so attend the game this afternoon in order that the efforts of the team may not go unnoticed...
...which bothered us some years back. The distinction between the amateur and the professional has been established. The propriety of college games on college grounds is recognized. In this connection, let me say, I have been much indebted to Mr. Lehmann for bringing here the best view of amateur sport...
...students are grateful to Mr. Joseph Leiter, '91, for giving the cups to be competed for annually in the scrub baseball series, and the series is doing much good in interesting so many men in the sport; but it must be remembered that the scrub games were this year given greater prominence than ever before, largely in order to develop men for their class teams, which are, or should be, of more importance. It takes so long to play off the scrub games that it looks at present as though the class games would be made no more of than...