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...mile, but the eights that row there have not the time to train for a longer race, and the races have to be rowed in heats. Oxford and Cambridge, as has been mentioned, row considerably more than four miles. If our English friends can do it, I for one think the American college rowing men ought to have the stamina, and I believe they have it. To many people, it is a source of great humiliation that the Englishmen are so much superior to us Americans in contests involving endurance. Here, in rowing, we have the finest test of endurance...
...make" the team, and for the honor and advancement to be gained thereby. And this is certainly worth some risk, as are also the lessons of experience and self-denial, and the spirit of co-operation, that must be learned. In the matter of health alone I think it open to grave doubt, as to whether the men who actually take part in the most strenuous of our sports, would not be the better if the strain was somewhat less severe. This was recognized in football some years ago, when the time of play in championship games was reduced from...
...recipient might naturally take it as I did, that this application called for some special privilege. Inquiry in the proper quarters, however, brings out the information that there is absolutely no preference to members of the Athletic Association of Harvard Graduates over other alumni. I think it would have avoided some misapprehension if the circular had distinctly stated that the secretary of the Association acted only as an intermediary in forwarding applications to the football management, and had no influence or function in assigning or distributing tickets. GRADUATE...
Every year we read that the seats for the big game of the season are "assigned by lot." Could you inform us as to the exact manner in which this is done. I think an article on the subject would be of great interest to practically all of your readers...
...this education, this joy which we would bring to you with your new house. We hope that in years to come, you on returning to Cambridge, will experience the same feelings that we have in Memorial Hall, when you think of your comrades here, who in due course will have done nobly their part in life...