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...meeting of the Amherst students was held last Saturday to protest against the recent action of the faculty in regard to inter-collegiate sports. A committee on resolutions previously appointed, reported, presenting a strong petition. The preamble set forth the action of the faculty in very emphatic contrast to the recent statements of the president that the college was never better ordered nor the work accomplished more satisfactory...
...resolutions voiced the sentiment of the college in regarding the faculty's action as inconsistent with their own statements in approval of the past conduct of the nine, as unwise in tending to repress college spirit, and, by the substitute offered, class games, to revive class spirit, now nearly extinct, and as unwarrantable in view of the fact that the "new system" at Amherst transfers the control of the students' disposition of time, money and energy from the faculty to the students themselves. The resolutions conclude with a request to the faculty not to persist in a course that will...
...Cambridge. The university, as an institution, enjoys that supreme happiness." Reference was then made to the valuable work done by the ten Harvard clubs in various cities of the country. The recent establishment of scholarships in the college by the New York Club was alluded to and its action praised. "But," continued President Eliot, "there are certain dangers about pecuniary aid. The nation is going into the business, I see, of pecuniary aid to indigent States. Now, I have learned from my slight experience in a single place of education that it is very easy, by injudicious aid, to pauperize...
...huge canes Thursday morning. This was taken as a challenge by the sophomores, who cheered the freshmen on their way to chapel. In the chapel the freshmen and their canes could not contain themselves, and the result of their rudeness was that President Porter was compelled to denounce their action as not befitting gentlemen. The contest which usually follows was interrupted by a member of the faculty. The contestants dispersed to their rooms, probably congratulating themselves on the observance of a good old custom. Probably fearing that Yale would derive all the honor of such transactions, the students at Dartmouth...
...freshmen and sophomores came into collision yesterday morning. The freshmen carried large canes, and in passing through the double line of sophomores they were greeted with storms of cheers. As the freshmen passed into the chapel they made so much noise with their canes that President Porter characterized their action as ungentlemanly. After recitation the freshmen and sophomores began a contest, but, a member of the faculty appearing, the belligerents dispersed...