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...Surely gymnastics afford a splendid test of athletic efficiency, developing co-ordination of all the muscles. This year more men came out for the team than for some years past. These men had fine natural ability. If they had had a coach, they would have developed into a well-rounded team, since there were good men for all the apparatus. Having no coach, they had to train themselves, practicing their old "stunts" and picking up a few new ones. When they met well coached teams, they were ignominiously defeated. Amherst beat them...
...fundamental causes of the popularity and attraction of athletics lies, in the fact that all seasons in all forms of sport lead to a common goal--a contest with Yale. This is the supreme test of the year's work, and its result determines the success or failure of that work. In the move to make intellectual activity as popular and attractive as competition in athletics, we take it upon ourselves to suggest that a similar final and supreme test be established in the realm of scholarly pursuits. Several years ago Professor Josiah Royce made this same suggestion, when...
...Freshman team has had as yet no opportunity to test its strength, since all of the games scheduled have had to be called off owing to lack of ice. A large squad has been working under the direction of Coach Rushmore, and some promising material has been developed. As Coach Ruchmore plans to try out a large number of men, no line-ups have been announced for the game...
...enterprising neighbor, Technology, is this week undergoing a thorough 24-hours-a-day test of its engineering equipment, by all its engineering students, working in eight-hour shifts. Harvard, to be sure, has no such test of its material equipment in store; but an equally thorough probing of Harvard's mental furnishings is scheduled to begin a fortnight hence. Vacation, according to an old tradition, is for the immediately following period somewhat demoralizing as well as refreshing. So it may not be amiss to sound a warning, time-worn but always pertinent, that the test of "Mid-years...
Students who entered Harvard College with the classes of 1914, 1915, or 1916 must pass, before they can be admitted to the Junior class, a special oral examination to test their reading knowledge of either French or German...