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...LIGHT-WEIGHT SPRRING.For this four men, J. D. Bradley, '86, T. R. Varick, '87, E. E. Blodgett, '87, and W. E. Faulkner, '87, were entered. The event gave promise of some exciting sport, nor were the audience disappointed...
...same time to invite a worse one-chronic discontent among the young men. If anything further is done in the matter would it not be the part of wisdom and prudence to restrict the movement to an attempt to rescue football from the category of exhibitions of brutality? This "sport" seems to us to be most in need of reform. Life would still be worth living for the Harvard undergraduate, even if Yale were shut out from these contests, provided base-ball, the race at New London, and other athletics were not interfered with. [Transcript...
...able to ride two or even three heats in a afternoon with half an hour's rest between. As to the strength necessary we wonder at Mr. Reed's statements, for among bicycle riders it is usually the custom to ride two races in an afternoon's sport...
...give the proper instruction in wrestling, jumping, etc., which events go to make up the programme of these meetings, just as much as for instruction in track athletics later in the season. Much is also due perhaps to the general unsettled tone which has pervaded all branches of sport during the winter. This has been due to the general vacillating and non-committal policy which the faculty have pursued in their attempts to regulate athletics by inter-collegiate conferences and committees...
...estimate competition, we can hear this party say; abolish all regular training and organized efforts to play a "scientific" game; return to the rules and customs of the simple sports of early boyhood. It is on this point only that debate is to come, then we have an issue clearly defined, and we do not hesitate to attack such a position as the above as plainly untenable. We have not many hopes of convincing those members of the faculty who hold to such a belief after having soberly considered the arguments on both sides already brought forward, so utterly alien...