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Owing to the way in which the fencing of Saturday degenerated into wild thrusting and a reliance upon strength instead of skill, it is understood that those in college who are instructed in this sport will soon meet and draw up a new code of rules for the judging of fencing bouts. Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly favors the plan...
...complaint has recently been made that the present lack of energy in the bicycle club is the result of a want of personal enthusiasm for the sport on the part of the officers themselves. Lack of interest on the part of the officers is certain to result in the deterioration and possible dissolution of any organization. In the case of a bicycle club especially is there need of an active interest among the officers. It is only by a personal interest which arises from the sport itself, and has as its highest aim the promotion of that sport that...
...above clipping plainly shows that the knowledge of the "Ebb and Decline of Bicycling at Harvard" is not confined to the college alone. When a sport, so prominent in English universities and on the increase there and in this country, has come to such a point as this, it is time that something was done; either it must be dropped altogether, or elevated to the position where it belongs. It is a deplorable fact that, among the candidates for the Mott Haven team, there is not one man trying for the bicycle race. Last year there was but one representative...
With regard to the effects on the heart of exercise, when it is taken to preserve or improve the health, or even in the case of those who carry it beyond this point, though still within the bounds of amateur sport, it is not easy to make a decided statement. The reports are conflicting, some authorities appearing to have seen a great many evil results from athletic sports, effecting the heart, while others are of the opinion that their injurious influences have been much overrated. To begin with, not all who enter athletic sports have their hearts examined, and even...
...college gymnasium in the country, and the employment of two officials whose duty it is to superintend and develop athletic interests, answer this question emphatically in the affirmative. Compare Harvard with other colleges and draw answers from the comparisons. One of our correspondents stated that sparring was a national sport, as fencing is in Germany. Do the German universities maintain instructors in fencing...