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...complaint is sometimes heard that there are too many restrictions and regulations governing college athletics. This may be true. What is equally true is that these regulations and restrictions have not been established to fit a theory, but are the results of attempts to check or control actual abuses, actual dangers, and to meet actual emergencies and difficulties, or actual criticisms and demands from fellow institutions. These assertions could be verified by a study of athletics at Harvard during the past quarter of a century. The present body of rules has been the slow product of years of trial...
...amendments would be proposed, and fewer still would be ratified. But the entire field would be explored; existing powers and limitations would be better understood; wholesome legislation, national and state, would be stimulated; abuses would be more clearly noted; remedies would be more zealously sought and easier found; groundless complaint would measurably subside; useless, impracticable agitation would diminish; reform movements would gain in practicability and promise; and the political atmosphere generally would be materially cleared...
...editorial page is partly but not wholly free from two faults which limit the influence of the college editorial. These are: first, a nagging particularity in the discussion of matters so small that they really belong in a complaint-box; secondly, a tone which is too laboriously polite and paternal to be effective when one undergraduate seriously wishes to influence the opinions or the conduct of his fellows...
Considering that the average charge per game on the H. A. A. ticket is only 10 cents, excluding the Yale game, the H. A. A. ticket holder can have no very serious complaint. ROGER ERNST...
...Athletic Committees was held on Saturday in New Haven. The meeting was called in response to a request sent last autumn to Yale by the Athletic Committee, for a meeting to discuss a number of minor details before the two-year athletic agreement, which is self-perpetuating if no complaint is made by either party, should renew. No definite action was taken at the meeting but it was found that the general views of both sides on the points under discussion were entirely in harmony...