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...pleasant weather of the past few weeks makes it possible to continue the class football games. If the remaining days of this week are utilized, some sport which is much needed, can be afforded, and some class can be given the chance to feel proud over a magnificent victory...
...governors of the New Haven Club have already sent out a circular to the members promising that every effort will be made to render the sport safe and agreeable and inviting all those who may so desire to join the club.-Yale News...
...high sense of honor." This is a sentiment which must commend itself to all earnest, thinking men. It is undoubtedly the true way to look at athletics; and to reach this result, Mr. Wendell contends, the athlete must begin with a thorough respect for and appreciation of his sport; and he must especially avoid all tricks and underhand practices. That part of the article which relates to the college faculty and to "professionalism" is especially worthy of study, inasmuch as there has been so much discussion on the subject at Harvard of late years. In the first place, the writer...
...challenge of Harvard to Yale to meet her in a match at cricket would have more chance of acceptance were not this sport one of the few in which the New Haven institution as yet makes no pretensions to expertness. The great cricketing college is the University of Pennsylvania, which is very easily first in it. The laurels of base-ball, foot-ball, boating, tennis, or field and track athletics may pass from one institution to another during successive years, but no American college meets Pennsylvania on the wicket with much prospect of coming off victor. Haverford, Columbia and Harvard...
...inferior to the inter-collegiate affair. And in base-ball both universities can and do raise very skillful second nines. But besides, with their resources of large classes and departments, Harvard and Yale can not only equip their representatives for business, but they can enlarge the true blessings of sport, by making it more general and by bringing in many men of feeble physical mould, who need just the experience of the athletic field to fit them for usefulness. Of course practice games for instruction can be had with professionals...