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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : To an impartial observer the tennis question appears to be one that the Tennis Association might grapple with successfully. Had the 'Varsity nine last winter reserved the cage in the gymnasium for their own use entirely, so that they might practice in it whenever the spirit moved them, thus shutting every one else out and leaving the cage empty five-sixths of the day, the absurdity of the thing would have appeared to all; and it would not have seemed to be a question beyond solution. No, the 'Varsity was allowed the first choice of hours...
...during the winter months that the student is most likely to neglect proper exercise, while in the spring and summer the inducements to out-of-door sport are many and strong. The prospect of inter-collegiate games in the spring fills the college gymnasium during the winter. When warm weather comes the crews and nines, selected from many candidates, take to the water or go on the diamond. But this occurs only after long months of excellent daily exercise by hundreds of college students continued through the very season when exercise is most irksome. Remove the inter-collegiate game...
Class games and the rivalry between individuals is scarcely sufficient to keep men at regular work when they can be out of doors; and they are totally inadequate to induce men to go into a careful system of winter training. "Winte training" means an hour's moderate work in the gymnasium daily. The present interest in class contests, small as it is, is chiefly owing to the training they give to men who are possible candidates for the 'Varsity teams or crews. Hence the interest in them would dwindle to almost nothing, were the inter-collegiate contests abolished or materially...
...article, writers on both sides of the question have up to this time made the false assumption that very few men receive benefit from inter-collegiate athletics. It is natural for one who knows nothing of the training of the candidates for the various teams through the winter to imagine that the nine, the crew and the contestants at the inter-collegiate athletic games are the only men who receive benefit from college sports, and it is a subject for congratulation that a college undergraduate who understands the inside workings of the system knows how to express himself in clear...
Even undergraduates are very apt to have an inadequate conception of the amount of influence exerted directly by inter-collegiate sports on college students. The assertion that fully one-sixth of the students of Harvard College were during the winter in training for teams and crews which will represent us in inter-collegiate contests this spring, would probably be credited by very few who have not looked into the matter for themselves. And yet such an assertion would be true. Out of the 928 undergraduates of the college, including special students, there were 150 who trained more or less faithfully...