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...several important changes. One of these changes related to the admission of new members, and aimed at making the society in the future one of active naturalists only. According to the old constitution, amendments have to lie on the table two weeks before they can be acted upon, so action on the constitution as amended and changed by the committee, was deferred until the meeting on Dec. 10th. A good many suggestions were made by Prof. Shaler, Prof. Farlow, Dr. Mark and Mr. Nolen, '84, about the kind of work the society ought to undertake. All agreed that original, independent...
...action of the Athletic Committee in forbidding the employment of a paid coach, seems to be unwarranted and unwise. To make good this statement, we shall first give the Committee's reasons for their action, and then our reasons against it. The considerations influencing the Committee will be stated as fully as they could be ascertained in an interview with one of the Committee...
...they object to the employment of any paid coach for the crew. As the second objection covers the first, we can drop Mr. Bancroft's name from the discussion, and consider the advisability of retaining a paid coach. The general explanation offered by the Committee for their course of action, is as follows. Athletics at Harvard must be freed from all objectionable features. The onward march toward professionalism is to be stopped, and a step backwards taken. In a word, athletics in all departments are to be restored to their pristine purity, safety, and cheapness. The students must dispense entirely...
...above is an attempt at a fair statement of the arguments urged by the committee in support of it's action. What do the students respond...
...Yale-Harvard freshman game which was arranged for to-day at New Haven, has been postponed at the request of the Yale team, although no satisfactory reasons have as yet been given for this sudden and uncalled for action on their part. It is rumored that several players who took part in the game last Thursday and are expected to do good work for Yale on the freshman eleven, went out of training rather suddenly Thanksgiving evening, and have not as yet recovered from too much "turkey." Unless Yale can give a satisfactory answer to Harvard for her refusal...