News
Progressive Labor Party Organizes Solidarity March With Harvard Yard Encampment
News
Encampment Protesters Briefly Raise 3 Palestinian Flags Over Harvard Yard
News
Mayor Wu Cancels Harvard Event After Affinity Groups Withdraw Over Emerson Encampment Police Response
News
Harvard Yard To Remain Indefinitely Closed Amid Encampment
News
HUPD Chief Says Harvard Yard Encampment is Peaceful, Defends Students’ Right to Protest
The Department of Physical Culture announced yesterday that 680 Freshmen have enrolled this spring for some athletic activity, and of these 352, or approximately 51 percent of the whole, have signed up for organized sports. This shows a decrease for last year, for although there are a few more in number than last year, the class is much larger, that the percent is decidedly smaller than the 58 percent who were enrolled a year ago. This is due to the fact that a great many more men have signed up for tennis than has ever been the case before, to the fact that there was no squash last year.
Tennis, with an increase of 91, has shown the greatest gain over last year's figures. A particularly interesting development is the decrease of the number in special corrective work from 55 to only three.
Tennis Most Popular Sport
In popularity, tennis and rowing are far ahead of the others, with 180 and 186, respectively. Track comes next, with an enrolment of 96, and after it, swimming, with 56.
Equitation, given by the University in conjunction with the Department of Military Science, has an enrolment of 38 men. A number of these, as well as many other students of military science, are engaged, in addition to their regular exercise, in pistol shooting on the range at Waverly.
The following table shows the number of Freshmen engaged in each sport as compared with the figures of last spring.
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.