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...little incentive for the mediocre athlete to practice daily when all the coaching he can expect is that given by a more experienced undergraduate. Let the Athletic Committee offer adequate coaching and the candidates for these events will tend to increase. When the winning of track meets is at stake, the Athletic Committee certainly ought not to question an additional expenditure for adequate coaching...
...part in "enforcing peace" in the world. And we have been already called upon--to our shame--to speak up for the principles we have professed. We must be able to "speak, and be listened to" when questions of international law and common humanity are at stake. This means the necessity of deliberate and sufficient military training...
...while it was going on, as a catastrophe which could never be repeated. But now they have seen a contest, based upon conflicting national interests that might at some future time apply to this hemisphere; and they have stood themselves upon the brink of war, although the interests at stake between the contending powers in no way affected this country. They have been like the man who thinks he is so careful about his own domestic affairs that it is unnecessary to insure his buildings, until his neighbor's house catches fire. To the great mass of our people...
...June 26. The University made only 3 hits off Way, and all of these came in the first two innings. The agreement with Yale and Princeton required that the game be played so that the championship could be decided on a percentage basis, even though there was nothing at stake in the contest...
...team,--especially in the forward line. Yale is undefeated, with a possible championship in view. The University, on the other hand, has already lost to Dartmouth, and can at the most hope only for a tie at the end of the season. In other words, we have less at stake tonight than Yale. While beating a New Haven team is glory enough in itself to call forth the best efforts of the University seven, yet tonight's contest is harder for Harvard than it would be with the circumstances reversed...