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...committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports at Harvard and as such desire to get at the truth in this matter, as the practice is one not conducive to sport and one in which no amateur should be engaged...
DEAR SIRS-Now that the foot ball season has closed we shall be left practically without any outdoor sport until next spring. The only recreation through all that time will be skating, which is always precarious in this climate, and difficult to indulge in because Fresh pond is so far from the college. Before it is too late I should like to suggest through your columns the advisability of forming an association to introduce tobogganing at Harvard. This sport has lately come into as great favor in the vicinity of Boston as it has always had in Canada. I believe...
...spots. Every Harvard man, however, believes that it is purer than that of any other college. And now that Harvard is striving for absolute purity, it is certainly no argument that she has not lived up to the standard which she has now set herself. Everyone who enjoys college sport and believes in honesty, ought, I think, to rejoice at the good which Harvard's action must eventually produce if she is steadfastly true to her present ideal.- however much he may depreciate the untimely action...
...awarding cups to the victorious teams. The work done by the members of all the class teams is certainly creditable and deserves some sort of recognition from the football association. If the winners of the fall scratch races receive cups for nothing save victory in one afternoon's sport it seems eminently more appropriate that men who have trained hard for a month should be rewarded for their work. The giving of cups also will, we believe, help along the end for which class games have partially been organized-the awakening of a permanent and general enthusiasm for football...
...beside the effects of the class series upon the sport itself, there has been another result which is in the long run quite as beneficial. We refer to the reawakening of class enthusiasm. The university spirit here has among its dangers the total extinction of class feeling, and this tandency has been quietly at work for the last few years. That all class enthusiasm should be crushed out, however, seems far from desirable. We are a little apt in some ways to grow old too soon here at Harvard, and in the development of our individuality to forget that class...