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...been stated that the Sunday evening services in the chapel will not be counted as church attendance, so that the action of the faculty in changing the hour of religious service will force a large body of men to migrate to other churches. We believe that many men are waiting for the evening chapel to begin and that they imagine, in the meanwhile, that they are not drawing on their precious store of "cuts." Whether the change was due to a vacancy in the college chaplainship or to some more occult cause, we are unable to state, but that...
...last spring the faculty had taken no notice at all of athletics; but, at that time, it seemed best to them to appoint a committee of three to look into the matter and to take such action in any direction as they might deem fit. The members of this committee were all very strongly of the opinion that athletics are essential to the highest welfare of the students; but, at the same time, they saw tendencies growing in the manner of conducting athletics which, unless checked, would be likely to more than offset all the advantages which...
...motion the Harvard crew was justified in its action, and a vote of thanks was extended to Mr. Bancroft. The secretary was instructed to draw up a statement for publication in the New York and Boston papers. A vote of thanks was tendered Mr. Bancroft for his services as coach last year; the meeting then adjourned...
...Lawn Tennis Association has once more given a conclusive proof of its inability to answer the needs of the mass of players now in college. In spite of the lengthy discussion of last spring about the feasibility of a more equitable distribution of courts, when the occasion for action arrives the executive of the association simply folds its hands and lets matters frame their own course. So long as they themselves are well provided for, why should they bother about other people's affairs, and if they themselves are successful in getting or keeping hold of desirable courts, why should...
...University Magazine of Pennsylvania characterizes as despicable the action of Columbia in regard to the Harvard-Columbia race, while it defends Harvard's position...