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...scrimmage followed some intensive work on pass defense, blocking and pass throwing, and was intended chiefly as a test for the No. 3 backs. The A team was in about 20 minutes, making their one touchdown on three plays from their own 45-yard line: a 25-yard sprint by Crickard, a 10-yard gain by Nevin, and a Wells-Crickard lateral pass...
Varsity football scrimmages today and tomorrow will be utilized chief to test and improve Harvard's defense against a forward passing attack, since the Crimson players were particularly week in this department of the game last Saturday...
Another section of the present educational system at Harvard that came under their surveillance was the General Examinations. These, the report stated, were made up if "small, specific question, designed to test the storehouse of facts which the student is supposed to have acquired." At this time the Bible and Shakespeare Examinations in the Department of History and Literature were recommended for the Junior instead of the Senior year...
...H.A.A. will not conduct its annual Interscholastic Cross Country run this year. Experience has proved that it is impossible to lay out a course near Soldiers Field which would provide a proper test for the schoolboys and afford the judges a proper basis for selecting winners...
There is another method which does not impose so severe a test of academic virtue, but which may accomplish much. That is, to substitute some other sport for football that will bring just as much revenue into the college chest while not exacting the tell in young lives and lowered college ideals for which football is now, in large measure, responsible. For the cost of commercialized football is to be reckoned, not only in the present, but in the future lives of young men whose ideals of the intellectual life have been shaped under its influence. Boys start...