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...Whereas, We are in entire accord with the Board of Overseers and the Faculty in their endeavor to correct any abuses that may have arisen in connection with athletic contests...
...Whereas, In the opinion of this club to prohibit undergraduates from taking part in intercollegiate athletics would not tend to correct the alleged abuses, but would be an unwise step, detrimental to the best interests of the undergraduates and the college; and that such abuses, if they exist, are not likely to be cured simply by confining the contests to the New England States...
...game. W. Price's errors in particular, were very costly and resulted in several runs for the home team. About 2,000 spectaters witnessed the game. Mr. McLean umpired the game and his decisions on bases were very satisfactory. His decisions on balls and strikes, however, were far from correct, but he was impartial, favoring Harvard no more than he did Princeton...
...advised by the committee of the board of overseers. It would be contrary to the ideas and feelings of the undergraduates and, as far as my experience has gone, of the large body of graduates here as well. If left to themselves the tendency of the students is to correct many of the abuses which the overseers wish to put an end to. Only last year, they voted voluntarily to confine the baseball games to Yale and Princeton, so that the number of games played should be decreased. The tendency toward class and scrub boat races shows conclusively how little...
...probably a little above, the average of the college at large, and the figures show there are both high and low scholars among them. The present method of marking is such that the averages cannot be obtained as exactly as a few years ago, but the conclusion is undoubtedly correct. Morgan's "University Oars" has settled the question for Oxford and Cambridge, that the men rowing in university races have a life longer and a health better than the average college graduate, and among them have been some of the highest double firsts and senior wranglers and some...