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...mere fact that the Athletic Association has decided to go back to three shows that they consider the interest in these meetings keen enough to warrant the change. One of the points of value of these indoor meetings is the encouragement they give to gymnastic contests. While out-door sport is perhaps somewhat more enlivening, its foundations, it should be remembered, lie in gymnasium work. The strength that men acquire at gymnastics mert and all the better able to stand the tests of out-door contests. In gymnastics, as in all other kinds of sport, the greater the interest shown...
...amendments passed by the Intercollegiate Athletic Association were in every way to the interest of modern sport, and to the credit of Harvard as originator. In proposing the abolition of the tug-of-war and the substitution of the safety for the ordinary bicycle race. Harvard was prompted by the spirit which is governing all pure athletics of the present day. The mere trial of brute strength has ceased to be the main object of sport, and greater precautions are being taken to secure the safety of the competitors from unnecessary accidents. It was in this spirit of having athletics...
Warm congratulations are due to the H. A. A. for the success which has attended their firm stand for proper sport...
...speaking of the advisability of entering a tug-of-war team, Capt. Vredenburg is quoted as saying that Princeton will support Harvard and Yale in making every effort to do away with this sport, but he doubts whether they could carry their point, owing to the opposition of the smaller colleges. He also said that an effort would be made to strike the bicycle races from the list of events, and that, in spite of Harvard's antagonism, there is some chance that the scheme may prove successful. Some of the most promising candidates are given below...
...colonies. Then by admitting the United States, the bonds of the two great countries will be more closely drawn and a feeling of kinship will be engendered. Those speaking the same language but from different parts of the world will be brought together, friendship will be made; sport will be encouraged...