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BASKETBALL AS ACOLLEGE SPORTfLeadingofWinter Ath'etics.BASKETBALL as a college sport has come into remarkable prominence the last year, and bids fair within a year or so to become the leading branch of Winter athletics in many colleges. Hockey a year or so ago was popularly hailed as the coming college Winter sport, but the reason why basketball is so rapidly distancing hockey in.student favor is not far to seek.The games of the Intercollegiate Hockey League are all played in the St. Nicholas Rink in this city, and are. therefore, fought out on non-college grounds. In basketball*•-- '• /■ S *the case is reversed. In the intercollegiate league the members are Yale. Harvard. Princeton. Columbia, and Cornell. A schedule of twenty games is played, in which each team meets every other twice. Yale, for example, plays two games with Harvard, one at New Haven and the other at Cambridge. In this way every one of the five colleges has the benefit of playing before its own students, arousing their interest and having them to count on forspectators.It is not difficult to understand the popularity of basketball with those %vho play it as well as with those who w atch it. Contrary to ignorant prejudice, few sports require more endurance and staying power. For forty minutes, the length of the average game, the players are constantly on the go, exerting every energy and putting forth every effort. The poorly trained or physically undeveloped have no chance to succeed in ’varsity basketball as it is played to-day. As an evidence of what physicians and trainers think of the qualities required for participation in basketball, it is of interest to note that Columbia's gymnasium authorities require a man to pass as rigorous a physical examination and attain as high a standard in the strength test to play basketball as to play football or row.Basketball, when it is well played, as It usually is by the colleges. Is a fast andspectacular game. It Is exciting to watch and exciting to play. It has. too, that element of roughness which college men andthe public generally seem to like in college sport. Basketball, too, has an advantage in that there are so few Winter sports, hockey and gymnastics being the only real competitors. In spectacular Interest it is of course much superior to gymnastics, and is rapidly surpassing hockey. Where Harvard has 35 candidates for its hockey team it has 125 in basketball. and the same figures prevail at Columbia. Yale, Princeton, and Cornell each have about fifty candidates for their basketball teams. Basketball usually attracts men who have attained some prominenceIIII1!I;I:iIn other sports that are seasonable at oth* r times of the year. Columbia, for example,has among its team and substitutes the%stroke of the ‘varsity crew, the Captain of the baseball nine, the quarterback of the* * ifootball team, the Captain of the g m-nastic team, a member of the ‘varsity four-oared crew, a number of the lacrosse team, one of the water polo team, and the Captain of the cross-country team.To these who are unfamiliar with college■ % lt;‘.r. ... * S./ .* * 1 - S%men's basketball the sport must not be confused with the game as played in the girls’ colleges. , They are as different as« . ».ft, ’ ' * * m V .dpossible, not only in rules and number of competitors, but in general style of play.■COLLEGE GIRL’S IDEAExpertad SoObtained Good Position.HE graduate of a woman's college who recently was engaged by the New York Department of Charities as consulting dietitian appears to have discovered an entirely new field of endeavor for members of her sex who have received a liberaleducation. Moreover, it is one in which the possibility of male competition is very slight.While studying at college, the young wo-% *man realized that it was possible for h* r* Aj. ftto become an expert on matters of diet, and planned her course to that end. Though not an executive, she will soon be one of the most important officers of that branch of the City Government, because she is sent upon investigations on everything concerning foods, their preparation, their nutriment, and their serving in the various institutions. She reports directly to and consults with the Commissioner.She has studied so as to be practical and scientific, too. She can cook, from soups to cake, and she has l’rof. Atwater’s food researches at her lingers’ end. Along with old-fashioneHl housekeeping she took up biology, physiology, chemistry, and domestic science. A man would have a hard time competing with her unless he was an expert cook and had a good working knowledge of* . j • , . \housewifery.IIThe Three-Hour Dinner•pHE three-hour dinner, against which Icertain prominent public men In Washington are uniting in a crusade, is undeniably an affair that needs to be pruned; but It Is not so serious an evil as the ten-minute breakfast or the five-min-ute lunch, says The Providence Journal, and the crusaders should be careful not to go too far In their proposed reform. Onecan ** feed ” in a very short time, but it isImpossible to give the necessary studious and finished attention to the chief meal of the day in less than an hour and a half; unless the most rigid economy of time Is absolutely required two hours Is better.
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New York Times
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Sun, Jan 25, 1903
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