A prominent graduate of Harvard, once a student at the University of Cambridge, in a brilliant speech delivered recently before a considerable number of Harvard men, took it upon himself to compare the state of athletics as he found them at the English University-where, it seems, there were once fifty-four college crews in training at one time,- with that of the large American universities, where, as he said, the athletic interests were committed entirely to the members of the teams, while the rest of the students sat on sofas, smoking cigarettes and betting on the results. Such a statement revealed, of course, an almost total ignorance of the athletic life of Harvard, and the effeminate picture presented of the average college man of today was too absurd to be anything but amusing.
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