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Whenever there appears at Harvard anything which will tend to keep alive a spirit of gentlemanly rivalry among the classes and which will add a wholesome element of fun and sport to the life of the college, it should be warmly welcomed. At present we have such an influence alive, working through the class championship games, especially in base ball. The howling crowds on Jarvis, the miscellaneous music, and the cannon too, all play an important part in keeping Havard from being a place where the life of the college is all shut up in recitation halls and reading rooms...
...course in physical training in the Lawrence Scientific School, is intended to meet just this need, to educate men to be scientific instructors in the art of developing the body. Such men as these, college graduates, would be best fitted to carry out in a spirit of pure amateur sport, the trust training the men. There would be little fear of arousing a spirit which might be created by a "professional trainer." An exemplification of such a coach who takes charge of the teams year after year, is to be had in Mr. Lathrop. The success of the Mott Haven...
...shape, so that the field to draw from next year will be all the richer. Not only have new men and old been put through daily practice in the game, but they have been taught the science of foot ball. The faithful work which has been put on the sport this spring ought to bear good fruit in the fall. Harvard is working to win, and has begun early, but none to early to draw out the best material from the college. The men deserve praise for the earnest way in which they have taken hold of the work, even...
...most interested in base ball. From a standpoint of justice as well as of courtesy, the college ought to extend as warm a welcome as possible to the visiting teams and applaud their good plays. This is the only gentlemanly way in which to enter into sport, and it is a custom which should prevail as if by instinct in every branch of Harvard athletics. In the past, there has been lurking an unfortunate tendency to look upon opposing teams as enemies, who should be downed by any fair means, and whose good points had absolutely no claim for recognition...
...rather disappointing that more interest was not shown this year in the sparring. If anything, there was less than was manifested at the meetings last year. It would seem unfortunate if the practice of sparring were allowed to die out from Harvard sports altogether, without any attempt to revive it. Just what the best measures to bring about its revival would be, it is hard to say. The question is one which deserves the careful consideration of the Athletic Association. It has been suggested that a set of smaller matches might be arranged before the meeting, where men would have...