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In the Senate, on Saturday, Mr. Bayard offered an amendment to the freebook bill, giving individuals the right to import books, etc., for their own use and not for sale, free of duty. Mr. Bayard explained that his object was to give poor scholars and students cheaper foreign books.
Moved, As an amendment to the constitution, that in Article II. of the constitution the words "the Divinity School" be struck out and the words "the university at large" inserted in their place.
ARTICLE VIII.AMENDMENTS.Amendments to this constitution may be proposed in writing to the secretary of the association one month previous to the annual convention, at which time it will be acted upon. The consent of two-thirds of the members present shall be necessary for the adoption of any amendment.
The Advertiser comments on the situation as follows : "The accounts of the Harvard-Yale game were published almost simultaneously with the remarks of Dr. Howard Crosby before the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in New York, in the course of which he attacked the abnormal growth and degeneracy of college athletics...
A meeting of the National Association of Amateur Athletes was held recently in New York to discuss a proposed change in the rules of the association. The New York, Manhattan, Staten Island, Williamsburg, American, Scottish-American, Adelphi, and Elizabeth Athletic clubs were represented. A motion was made that the rules...