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...only highly discreditable to a paper which should certainly be able to secure for itself reliable correspondence, but is a disgrace to the man who is willing, for considerations of "space," to throw away all considerations of college loyalty and to envelope college athletics with the atmosphere of professional sport of the to west order...
...London, England, Sporting Life of March 20, the department entitled "Men and Matters in the World of Sport" and signed "Old Blue," speaks of the postponement of the annual Oxford Cambridge sports to July 3, and adds: "Wiser policy was never evinced than the postponement in question, but now one course of training will suffice for the inter-'varsity amateur championship and international meetings. Yes, I am glad to say the latter is now practically decided and another American vs. English universities' tussle awaits us in the near future, I fancy, but anon with authority...
...promoters of lacrosse wish it understood that the game is played here primarily as a healthful and exhilarating sport. There is room for many more men on the field and the management would be glad to have fifteen or twenty men who wish exercise to join the squad...
...efforts alone save intercollegiate football, for of the intensity of her reform spirit at present there is convincing assurance. The cooperation of other colleges will, however, be necessary; and first of all, of Yale. We do not fear for the outcome. Yale men know enough of true sport to know that football does not now come under that head...
...early date a field will be laid out back of the Gymnasium, goal posts will be erected, and the game will be made an outdoor sport...