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...vote of the Committee on the regulation of Athletics forbidding the Yale-Harvard game to be played at New York will doubtless cause many men in the college disappointment and even serious inconvenience. Nevertheless we cannot doubt that the action of the committee is for the best interests of Harvard athletics There are many things that make it desirable for the game to be played in New York; at the same time there are very serious objections to the plan. The question is a hard one to decide, and doubtless many men will question whether the Athletic Committee has taken...
...orders for the formation of the Harvard contingent in the torchlight parade are pub ished this morning, and we trust they will be obeyed to the letter. In voting to join the Republican procession, the classes stated that their action was not to be considered as being significant of their political views, and therefore we hope that every one will observe the rule about transparencies and cheering for candidates. We would caution the men to preserve as perfect order as possible; in view of the disgraceful exaggerations concerning Harvard recently made by the press, we cannot be too careful...
...board of overseers at their last meeting requested the committee on government to "consider and report promplly on the advisability of making attendance upon recitations and lectures compulsory." This action shows plainly that either the overseers fail to understand the way in which attendance at recitations is regulated by the present system, or else labor under the delusion that in such a rule as they propose lies the only way of making students appear regularly at recitations. In the first place, at the present time the instructor is the judge as to whether or not a student comes to recitations...
...report promptly to the board upon the advisability of making attendance at daily prayers, or at roll-call, for those who do not wish to attend prayers, compulsory; also upon the advisability of making attendance upon recitations and lectures compulsory, and to report whether in their opinion any further action is necessary in regard to the general rules affecting discipline and studies in the university; and it was also voted to request the dean of the faculty to aid them with reports of attendance at college exercises...
...Yale prohibition club has challenged the republican club of the university to a joint debate on the question, "Is the Prohibition Party a National Necessity?" or any phase of this issue which shall be agreed upon by representatives of the two clubs. No action has as yet been taken upon the challenge...