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Show iei!s hi inhe both clem sports President Eliot of Harvard Expresses Ex-presses Himself Forcefully on Subject. Tribune Special Sporting Service. BOSTON. Mass.. Dec. S. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard university. univer-sity. In a dinner to th Ilnrvnrd crew of 100G, der-larcd that rowing nnd lawn tenuis ten-uis were the only clenn nnd honorable sports In the college. President Eliot recommended tho plan of sending a crew to England. "Rowing," said President Eliot, "Is clean and honorable, and there Is only one other sport In college of which you can say that, and that Is tennis. Ttow-Ing Ttow-Ing Is comparatively an unchanging sport, that Is, there are no new tricks this year; no secret practlve, no invisible performance. per-formance. It is all In tho open. "That Is a good deal to say about a sport nowadays. All the long-lived sports change little from generation to generation, genera-tion, and If you see a sport In which thero arc new tricks every year you may know by that fact alone that It is not a good thing to have In a college." Speaking of tho trip to England made by the Harvard crew Inst summer. Dr. Eliot said: "It Js a thoroughgoing satisfaction satis-faction for anybody who has watched tho sports .of Harvard university for forty-five forty-five years to 3ee the improvement thnt has come to rowing In the last few years. It Is a great satisfaction Indeed to see the Importation from England of a higher sporting spirit than what has always been manifested at Harvard, even In rowing. We have needed that importation, and we have had a very fortunate example of it this last summer. "I want to thank the crew of this year nnd the graduates who helped them to go ot England. They know that an Important contribution to the right spirit of sport has been brought home this year, nnd wo shall go further in that direction." |
