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...affair, it would be eminently fitting for the college to display a practical interest in the tournament by going to the matches today. The presence of Harvard men would at least show the preparatory school players that the college is doing all it can to develop the sport which they represent...
...Times has asked us to "explain the value of this dual league in track and field athletics and its probable effect on the intercollegiate games." The value in track and fiald athletics is much the same as in other branches of sport. Harvard and Yale are anxious to meet as rivals in every sport and prove the superiority. At the intercollegiate meetings, where the winning or the losing of the cup turns most frequently upon the points won by some small college, no chance is given to prove the real superiority between the two colleges. Take the last intercollegiate games...
...college's interest in all these branches of athletic sport is unusually keen this spring. It is an interest which shows that the college can give to boating and base ball, to track athletics, to cricket and to tennis, a support so loyal as to end in sure success...
...suggestion, then, might be that the cause which has killed the interest in our meetings has also kept up the general success in the athletics. It seems to us that, as a matter of fact, such is the case; and that this cause is the general rise of amateur sport throughout the country, resulting in the special growth of athletic clubs in Boston and the vicinity. These clubs in the aggregate now hold many open athletic meetings every winter; and they have been absorbing the interest which formerly centered in our meetings alone. At the same time, while our meetings...
...lighted by electricity. It is open to members at all hours of the day, and also during the evening, when the college reading room is inaccessible. Among the periodicals on file are Life, Puck, Judge, the Boston Herald, the New York Herald, the Century, Scribners,' Harpers,' the Week's Sport, Outiug, and Fliegende Blaetter...