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Each member has it in his own hands to compel an answer to this question: first, by coming to the meeting tonight; secondly, even if it is necessary to adjourn to another time, by refusing to break up until the affairs of the society have been thoroughly and publicly overhauled...
...tone of most of the articles is above the average, and the editorials contain few statements which cannot be accepted without dispute. The position taken, however, is rather an ideal than an aetual one. The question is asked, "for whose benefit are these games and exhibitions given?" The possible answers considered are, "for the physical benefit of the men who participate in them," "for the honor of the institution which may indulge in them," and lastly, "for the benefit of the undergraduate, who honors out-of-door sport, and who supports it with his heartiest shout and his unbounded enthusiasm...
...intimated that scholarships have been conferred by the Harvard Faculty in order to attract athletic men. In answer to this charge it is only necessary to state, if indeed any statement is necessary, that all scholarships in Harvard University are conferred by special votes of a Faculty or of the Academic Council, and confirmed by the Corporation; and that in both bodies the only grounds of bestowal are good scholarship and need. It should perhaps be added, in specific answer to the allegation that "a number of the Harvard Eleven are at present beneficiaries of the college funds," that only...
...offers have ever been made to me." Mr. Dennison says: "The extract is false from beginning to end. I was never offered any inducement to play on the team either by Mr. Sears or anybody else." Mr. Sears is absent in Europe. We have written to him, and his answer will be at your disposal, if you so desire, when it arrives...
These rules were passed by the combined efforts of Yale and Harvard, but proved ineffective. A Princeton player, who was challenged under them as ineligible to play, took refuge in a technicality at the meeting held Nov. 14, and refused to answer any questions, and Yale and Harvard were outvoted by Princeton and the smaller colleges. The Harvard Football Association then felt that only one course was open to it, namely-to withdraw from the present League, and to frame rules which should suppress present objectionable practices, and should govern the constitution of its own team hereafter. This course left...