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...action of the committee on athletics, in requiring that every candidate for any of the crews must know how to swim, again suggests the great need of a swimming bath, where students can learn and exercise this valuable accomplishment. It is well known that, at present, many of the men who try for the crews are unable to take care of themselves in the water, and the liability to accidents is really much greater than is generally supposed. A man who tries to row in a shell when he cannot swim is running a very great risk. Every one recollects...
...begin before 4 o'clock, without inconveniencing anybody, this would doubtless be the better plan. The faculty, however, would not be likely to consent to such an arrangement, and even if they would it would not be expedient to break in upon the recitations of so many men. Immediate action should be taken upon the matter in order to insure perfect fairness, and at the same time to avoid the possibility of any unpleasant complication...
There seems to be a new sentiment among college students against the employment of professional trainers in rowing, base-ball and other sports, and adverse to engaging in contests of any description with professionals. All American students will heartily endorse the action of the Harvard authorities and students, who have decided that the employment of professionals as trainers shall be done away with. - [Cornell...
...Action is deferred on applications from members of the professional schools...
...Base-Ball Association, to whom the matter of withdrawing from the inter-collegiate league was referred, will report adversely to such a step. In view of the proposed erection of a fence around Jarvis, which will largely increase the receipts from games played in Cambridge, and the action of the faculty in prohibiting for the future all games with professionals, which will materially shorten the time which it will be necessary for the nine to spend away from Cambridge, any action of the nature proposed would seem to be inadvisable. And even if these changes did not remove all objections...