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...what for it (except for the senior class) is a wholly new spectacle - a base ball game with Princeton. A departure is made from last year, in confining the matches almost wholly to college nines, and not to professional teams. This will give the added interest of college sport. The nine is working hard, and has excellent material. From all appearances, the season should be one of the best in Harvard base ball history...
...meeting, and furthermore they have probably added something to Harvard athletics. Strange as it may seem, there is at present in college very little active enthusiasm in gymnasium athletics, such as contests on the flying rings, parallel bars, and the like. What interest there is in this kind of sport is good, but it is confined to a very small circle. One of the best ways to broaden this interest is by setting before the college an example of the perfection to which this sport can be carried. It is hard to go ahead blindly to arouse an interest...
...Theoretically this ought to be so. An ideal exhibition of sparring - sparring, not for blood, but for points - where quickness and skill should be the qualities to be exercised and to determine the winner, such an exhibition of sparring would doubtless do much to arouse an interest in the sport here at Harvard. But, unfortunately, such an exhibition of ideal sparring is hard to find. The moment one looks for champions outside the college, he is apt to hit upon something bordering very closely on professionalism. We doubt very much if such a principle of invitation could be extended...
...Permission is granted by certificate which specifies the sport and length of permission. The certificate will not be delivered to the persons examined until the week of the event, or of the first event of a series, and it will then be delivered only on personal application. It must be deposited immediately in the box of the committee on athletics in the entry of the gymnasium...
...thoughts of entering in either the sparring or the wrestling should be deterred by an idea that the college will laugh at his attempts. Plucky efforts are always appreciated. As there are very few good boxers or wrestlers in college, anyone with endurance and a knowledge of the sport ought to make a creditable showing...