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...perhaps the Advertiser writer and his co-reformers are not much concerned about such evils. Their sole effort, it may be, is to lead back college sport by the stern hand of authority to the pure forms of earlier days-to the condition where, as the Advertiser puts, the participant or onlooker at the game can recall the "delights of the recesses of his school days...
...attention of those who intend to compete in the winter meetings is called to the following athletic regulation: 3. No student shall enter as a competitor in any athletic sport, or join any college athletic club as an active member, including lass-ball, foot-ball, cricket, lacrosse and rowing associations, without a previous examination by the director of the gymnasium and his permission...
...evils is no valid argument against it, unless it can be shown either that these outweigh the good, or that some other practical system can be devised which shall have all the good with less of the evil of the present system." 1. The amount of time devoted to sport is, he claims, not excessive, never more than two hours daily, including going and coming, and this for the men who take the greatest amount...
...Transcript sums up the athletic situation very well when it says: "The extent to which the faculty of a college is justified in attempting to regulate the out door sports of its students is a difficult question to decide. On the whole, it seems as if the Harvard faculty, with the most laudable intentions, had tried to do too much. Castiron rules to cover every kind of sport, with members of the faculty authorized to superintend all inter-collegiate contests, convey the impression that the students must be a very headstrong and indiscreet set of young men to need such...
...university. It is one of the complaints urged by the faculty that there are not enough inter-class contests. Here is an excellent opportunity to start a competition which shall bring out the representatives of the different classes, at the same time affording an opportunity for healthy sport in the field and tending to revive the class spirit which is said to have died out of late years. This suggestion of ours may be impracticable, but we should like to see it acted upon, especially since we feel sure that '84 could put four men into the field capable...