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When Mr. Lehmann was here last fall and saw the facilities in the University for rowing he expressed his surprise that so few should take up the sport. In the English universities a very large percentage of the students go in for rowing whether they make their college crews or not and one reason that the Cambridge and Oxford crews are so fast is that they are the pick of such large numbers of men. Every move toward introducing this condition of things at Harvard is to be welcomed as a step in the right direction...
...number of years there has been excellent material in College for this team, and Harvard has been a member of the three-cornered league with Haverford and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, cricket is a sport which ought to be fostered in the University, since it provides light, healthy exercise and does not require exceptional athletic ability. One would think that a game which has been played for so long at Cambridge and which has these advantages would not have to go to Allston and use the grounds of another club. Yet such was the case last year...
With a year's trial the nine ought to be more successful than before. The schedule is certainly an improvement over last year's because it does away with games with professional teams. Not only are such games distastful to those interested in college sport, but by leaving them out it becomes possible to play a number of colleges and schools with whom games could not otherwise be arranged...
...President Eliot's annual report, the remarks on the conduct of intercollegiate sports, though brief, are full of valuable suggestions. After pointing out "the evils of overtraining and excessive exertion" and the defects in the management of sports and their remedies, the President says: "It must be perceived and admitted that training which goes beyond pleasurable exercise is worse than useless, and that so-called sports which require a dull and dreaded routine of hardships and suffering in preparation for a few exciting crises, are not worth what they cost. They pervert even courage and self-sacrifice, because these high...
...reported from New Haven yesterday that since Harvard and Yale had failed to reach an agreement in regard to a boat race next spring, and as Harvard had refused to meet Yale in one branch of sport without the others, the proposed renewal of athletic relations between the two universities has been given...