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Although the idea of relay races is probably a very old one, it is only within the past few years that the event has attained any prominence in our athletics. Exeter students claim to have been the first to have revived the custom. The popular features of the sport soon attracted the attention of athletic organizations,- notably the B. A. A.,- and the result was an immediate interest in it among the schools and clubs about Boston...
...team, who, either before or after entering the University, shall have engaged for money in any athletic competition, whether for a stake or money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary emolument or gain whatever, with the single exception that he may have received from the college organization, or from any permanent amateur association of which...
...Existing rules provide against professionalism as far as rules can do so; the four year rule. (b) Intercollegiate rivalry furnishes a proper incentive to the sport. (c) There is unusual discipline for developing desirable qualities (1) mental and moral, (2) physical. (d) Such developement should play a larger rather than a smaller part in education...
...them. If on the other hand, a place were provided near by, and the lce kept in condition for skating the greater part of the winter, it is probable that as many students would engage in this form of exercise as take part in any other college sport...
Several of the prose articles deserve more notice than it is possible to give them here. The "Paper" Sport is as good a "Harvard Type" as the Advocate has yet introduced; and the "Law Breaker," which follows, contains some uncommonly vivid word painting. Its author, Philip Richards, gives an excellent description of the novel feelings which the hero experiences on his first introduction to a gambling hell. In marked contrast are "Merely Players," and "Applied Science," the articles already indefinitely referred to as lacking in originality...