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...substance that he does not desire to have the action of the committee misunderstood. The changes insisted upon were meant absolutely to do away with the objectionable features. Therefore the referee must be not only opposed to the game as played at present, but he must have absolute control of it, and the punishment must operate against the whole team, to diminish its score, if need be, or it would not be efficacious. The action of the committee in this one case is not intended to affect any future action which the committee may desire to take; it applies only...
...proper for me to state that I said no such thing. What I did say was that Catholics could obtain the higher branches at Yale and Harvard, but what I did not clearly explain perhaps, was the additional fact that our prelates wisely hold that we should direct and control such branches in a university of our own. I don't know who the priest is who so jauntily declares that "the danger of alienating our youth from Catholicism" is not very great as the result of a Harvard or Yale course. But this I will say, that...
...Senior Societies at Yale" is the subject of a vigorous protest to the Nation from a member of the class of '84 of that institution. The writer claims that the Yale papers are all under the control of the secret societies...
...with the universities, one to one, anther to another. The student passes from the school to the university without an examination. He is retained at the school six years. Add two years to our preparatory school and two to our college and we have the English system. The universities control parishes. There are also fellowships with very liberal incomes which the graduate may enjoy, wherever his home, whatever his occupation. So that the pecuniary inducements are far different from our college honors. Then in aristocratic England a university man has great political and social advantages which in a democratic country...
...Record in speaking of the Princetonian affair says: The attitude of the Princeton faculty toward the students is in many respects in marked contrast to that of the Harvard and Yale faculties toward the students under their control. Evidently at Princeton there is a great veneration for old customs and traditions, which precludes a just comprehension of more modern ideas. This is evinced in the various actions taken by the faculty in regard to athletics. These consist of aggressive restrictions whose haste and indiscretion has to be repented in almost immediate concessions. But even these so-called concessions are sufficiently...