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...regulations. We do not know what grounds of hope the Harvard authorities have for hoping that the case will be otherwise. We do not know either what substantial reasons Harvard has for hoping that her persistence in the new policy will ultimately coerce Yale and Princeton into adopting it. A hope that such an event will take place can but be founded on the blindest faith in the superiority of Harvard's position. This faith we cannot share in. We do not see any reason why it will be found impossible for Princeton, who expresses herself in favor of reasonable...
...third place we question very much the firmness of these regulations in their immediate effects on college athletics no less than we doubt and fear their influence on college sports in general in the long run. Yale it is probable will not adopt them. It necessarily follows then that following from the provisions of the 8th and last resolution all the present inter-collegiate associations of which Yale is a member will be disbanded. Of course the weight of all this and of re-organization, if any such takes place, falls upon the present teams. Practically by these measures student...
...Providence, R. I., the seat of Brown University, the resolutions adopted at the recent conference of college committees in New York to be submitted for approval or rejection to the several faculties interested, have been made public. It is of course too early to speculate upon their effect until it is seen how many colleges will finally adopt them. The various provisions contained in them were in general not unexpected, in view of the course of the recent agitation of the matter in the different colleges and in the public press. We reserve any criticism of the measures in detail...
...discussed. They believe that college sports should be conducted as the amusement of amateurs, and not as the business of professional players; they are in favor of forbidding college clubs and crews to employ trainers, to play or row with "professionals," or to compete with clubs or crews who adopt either of these practices...
...sore head' " but that he looks upon the "subscription plan" by which the school is carried on as "a disgrace to Harvard College and as bound to exert a most baneful influence, by its example, on the future of American veterinary medicine." This subscription plan which has been adopted is the same as the London plan of "subscriptions," by which, for a minimum sum of money per year, the school, according to Mr. Billings. Promises to render services to each subscriber which no private practitioner could afford to guarantee to do for three times the amount. He further claims that...