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Show I SKILL, RATHER THAN KAYOES, WILL COUNT Although Harvard has adopted the boxing gamo as a major sport the Crimson athletic officials will see that the pastime is not made so alluring that it will tempt those In It to adopt the fight game as means of llvlihood. Following tho announcement of tho adoption of boxing comes tho statement state-ment that the Harvard boxers will be urged to dispense with the knockout tta a means of victory and direct their attention chiefly to acquiring scientific skill and thus bo content with outpointing out-pointing opponents The Knockout as viewed by tho Harvard athletic officials, offi-cials, forms one of tho questionable. If not indeed, brutal aspects of tho ".inly art. That every utudont should know how to handle well the weapons nature gave him. le conceded, but It la argued that the knockout belongs only In th professional ring and has no place In college athletics. Harvard whilo In the past not encouraging boxing, box-ing, has never taken a determined ttand against 1L For years part of the Harvard gym equipment has included in-cluded numerous sotii of boxing gloves which those lncllnod could use to thelr Ucart's contest, Under tho new plan Mudents will bo taught the rudlmens of the art of self-defence, while the lOXlng team will be taken further with in idea to perfecting their skill. |