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Whether this league be formed or not, it would seem a most advantageous thing for ice polo, a sport which is becoming very popular, especially with college students, if a college organization were formed with the object of furthering this sport. A team formed on a competitive basis would then be in a position to truly represent the University. Furthermore, such an organization would be a nucleus for such efforts as the attempt to flood Holmes Field or to secure an indoor skating rink...
...consideration of first importance is that if our athletics are to be kept clear of excess and corruption they have got to be animated by the love of sport for its own sake. The desire for victory and the "honor" of a college should and may be a pure motive, but it is safe to say that nine tenths of the corruption in college athletics today is due to the domination of this motive, in a perverted form, over the pure love of sport. When, furthermore, the latter becomes obscured, teams are selected not from the large body...
...From a Graduate's Window" we are told of a dialogue with Socrates in which that philosopher "roasts" the Fogg Museum and the Corporation's utilitarian view of architecture. On his own responsibility "Graduate" satirizes the diplomacy of intercollegiate sport, especially with relation to a certain affair between colleges "A" and "B." He closes with "two maxims, long held as truths among antediluvians: 'Do not whitewash ! Cultivate sport for the sake of sport, and for nothing else...
...interests of intercollegiate sport it seems proper to meet these criticisms by a single official statement to the effect that at neither university are the athletic authorities in any way responsible for what has been said upon these points. As a matter of fact, the referee and umpires were accepted by Pennsylvania, and she is content to abide by their decisions. On the other hand, the question of Brooke's eligibility was fully discussed by the proper authorities at each university before the game was played and was made the subject of correspondence and conference. Pennsylvania's decision that Brooke...
...present, if it is to remain the mark of honor which it is intended to be. No team should be allowed to wear the "H" unless it has the standing in the University which firm establishment and general popularity alone can give it. Without any reflection upon other sports carried on more or less successfully at Harvard, we believe that the members of the football eleven, the crew, the baseball team, and the point winners of the Mott Haven team are the only men who should be accorded the "H." There is good reason for such a restriction. Until...