Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

htternational Games and a fighting-edge they have in plenty. It is no business of theirs to worry about the urbanity and amenity of the sports of their English cousins any more than it is their business to lament be– cause the cloistered calm of Oxford or Cambridge is not completely duplicated at Ann Arbor or Chicago. If they go about their training sanely and sensibly and win, and are beaten like sports– men, they can afford to neglect gilding the lily. The virile and austere virtues they have. In due time, if they order their sports properly, the graces shall be added unto them.