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...Amherst faculty has not yet decided what action to take in regard to the resolutions recently drawn up by the Inter-collegiate Conference on Athletics in New York. It is probable, however, that the subject will be referred either to the Senate or Baseball Association, and that the faculty will act according to the desire of the students. The subject has created quite an excitement among the students, and their opinions seem to be evenly divided as to whether Amherst should adopt the resolutions...
...anything but a hoax. I cannot explain them now. How can they be true? What has called them forth? They seem to me utterly unreasonable. The students, of course, are placed in a position at once embarrassing and oppressive. But the faculty, I think, occupies the worst position. This action is at the least injudicious. I hope the students will make a decided protest...
...meetings have been proposed, and dynamite will soon be resorted to. If, in spite of these warnings, the faculty will persist in their ruinous career, a calamity must inevitably follow. But let us consider the matter in a slightly less nihilistic way. What justification have the faculty for their actions? In a conference held in New York, a number of professors, representing all the Eastern colleges of any importance, decided that the professional spirit had entered to a too great extent into almost all our college athletics, and that it would therefore be best to check the evil while...
...with the views of our correspondent in another column, calling upon the executive officers of the several athletic associations to make public before the students the petition recently presented by them to the faculty, or else to call a mass meeting of the whole college to consider and take action in the matter. The question, as our correspondent says, is one of vital importance and as such deserves the fullest publicity and frankest treatment on the part of all concerned in it, faculty, students, and athletic organizations. Moreover we have obvious reasons for believing that in so important a matter...
...action of our faculty throughout the entire athletic imbroglio of the last two years, we do not hesitate to say, has been marked with a spirit of secrecy and exclusiveness, which in our opinion is highly inexpedient, as is shown well enough by the results such a policy has brought about. The matter has gone too far for further concealment and indulgence in indecisive diplomacy...