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...challenge from the Williams freshmen has been received by the Harvard freshman eleven for a game of foot - ball on the 24th. No action has yet been taken...
...contestants. If only the last three were in a league it would be very easy to have three games with each opponent. We already have four with Harvard, and the first three could be made championship games, and one other game arranged with Yale. This is similar to the action that Harvard and Yale took a few years ago in boating. The success of their course is shown by the greatly increased interest in rowing in both colleges and by the enormous crowd which yearly assembles at New London. When Amherst or Dartmouth can produce nines which have a respectable...
...Princetonian states that the Princeton faculty will probably take no action in the matter of prohibiting games with professionals, and adds: "But whether they do or not, we hope that they have a higher appreciation of the true aims of college athletics than to imagine that any evil is to be tolerated, for the sake of affording any team better chances of winning trophies for the college. It certainly seems strange that any faculty should give the reason that was given at Yale for refusing to abolish professional games...
...college press here has had considerable to say upon the action of our faculty, regarding the prohibition of our nine from playing with professional teams. It is justice to say that college sentiment is divided as to the wisdom of such action, but the majority of the men feel that it is right. In regard to the position of the faculty, we believe they acted as to them seemed best. It is not strange, nor is it any act of discourtesy, that they did not accede to the proposition of the Harvard faculty. Circumstances are different in many respects...
...behavior of the students in all cases has been exemplary and has called for no action from the council in any case...