In reference to the complaint that we so often hear,- that Harvard's social conditions interfere with her athletics, let me say that the Harvard undergraduate who captains a team or crew, who does his best, even if defeated,- is honored, and has won a prize that makes a social recognition absolutely paltry.
Individuals are at a disadvantage when they are working against an organization. There are organizations in other colleges and we want to have one here. We want to strike out for ourselves. The undergraduates can do more than the graduates can possibly do but we have our part to perform and we can do a great deal.
In closing, I make an appeal not only to graduates to organize and work, but to undergraduates to organize and work. I appeal to them to show the spirit that makes college success, success in after life, that they do their level best, never feeling over-confident, never shirking, to persevere and to be victorious in the end.
Governor Roger Wolcott was then introduced and said in brief:
I am deeply concerned in all that concerns the honor and credit of Harvard University. It is a sense of personal gratification, whenever I hear that in scholarship, in public life, or in athletics, a foremost stand has been taken by a Harvard man. In athletics or in anything else, so long as something worthy of the honor of Harvard is in a man's keeping, so long as the man who represents Harvard carries with him the feeling that part of Harvard's fame is his, so long as he remembers that the next thing to victory is honorable defeat-I trust that the tide of defeat is bound to turn.
General Bancroft also read a letter from Professor I. N. Hollis, as chairman of the Athletic Committee, endorsing the new movement and wishing the organization every possible success.
The constitution was then voted and unanimously adopted.
The last business to come before the meeting was the election of the twenty-four members of the executive committee. The result was the election of the twenty-four men whose names had been proposed by the committee on organization, although twenty-six other men received scattering votes. Major H. L. Higginson's name was withheld from the nominations at his request on account of his being a member of the Corporation.
Following are the names of the men elected to office:
Secretary-F. W. Moore '93.
Executive Committee-A. G. Hodges '74, New York; W. A. Bancroft '78, Cambridge; E. D. Brandegee '81, Utica; George B. Morrison '83, Boston; Roland
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