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...does the usefulness of the association lie in giving stars to the athletic world. It interests hundreds of boys in healthy out door sport, and helps to make them into strong and able-bodied...
...Winbolt's paper in which he gives a careful account of the year's aquatic program at Oxford, showing the method of selecting freshmen for the crews, the course of training, the races themselves; and in fact, of all that has to do with the "system of river sport that has gradually developed at Oxford during the present century, its hierarchy of clearly defined gradations, its centralization, and its working results...
...Shooting Club is an organization which has never come before the college very prominently. Yet it represents a branch of sport which has been followed with success here, especially in the past year or two. Its rise during that time may be attributed more to the matches which have been played with Yale than to any other cause. They have helped to create a far keener interest than the club had known since its start. The members of the club have taken full advantage of this quickened interest; and they have been working quietly but steadily to make the club...
...course the one most competent to decide the question. The college, however, has an opinion of its own in the matter; and this opinion is very plainly that Harvard should not be represented in the tug-of-war. Harvard took a very decided stand against the so-called sport and the Coolidge believes that it is more or less of a matter of principle for Harvard to do all she can to discourage the tug-of-war. This set opinion of the college will have weight, we hope, with the captain who, in making his decision, has to bear...
...Athletics at Amherst," Mr. H. A. Cushing gives an account of the different branches of sport at this college, the nine, eleven, track athletic team, and the old crew of 1875, their origin their origin and development. For in athletic development, the work of Amherst has been one of originality rather than of imitation, and it has happened not infrequently that the system in use at Amherst has been adopted, in modified forms. by other institutions of learning. Pictures of the various teams are included in the article...