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...minor teams is practically a dead letter; but that its evil effects are still as great as ever. We are thoroughly tired of being dunned for subscriptions, when the Athletic Association has an enormous yearly surplus beyond the reach of the minor managers. No one will attempt to defend subscription soliciting, either as a method of financing teams or as a competition. Nor is there a single good side to the commercial policy that is being so effectually forced upon our managers. What we all want is a blanket ticket for all but the most important games on every Harvard...
...team chosen last night will meet Princeton in Cambridge on Friday, March 20, and will defend the negative of the question, "Resolved, That further material increases in the United States Navy are undesirable." The University team will be trained at a series of practice debates against the second team, and will be coached by R. W. Kelso...
While not wishing in any way to defend the unfortunate lack of judgment in question, I do want to appeal to the student body to take a fair view of the track team management as a whole,-to consider the wonderful development of new material that has rewarded the efforts of Captain Dodge, Coach Lathrop and Coach Quinn, during this winter, and to point out how much has been already accomplished towards winning the nine-year cup from Yale this spring...
...another column this morning the CRIMSON prints a communication that attempts to defend the Junior class for not rallying sooner in support of the Union dance, on the grounds that it is a Union and not a class affair. A few figures readily prove the lack of foundation for this assertion. On January 20 there were 404 Junior members of the Union, and the University Catalogue, which appears today, shows a total enrolment of 467 Juniors in Harvard College and 23 in the Scientific School. Eighty-two per cent of the third year students are members of the Union...
President Eliot and Professor J. H. Beale '82, of the Law School, will hold an informal discussion on the subject of "City Government by Commission," at the Colonial Club, Cambridge, on Saturday, January 11. President Eliot will defend the new system of municipal government by commission, while Professor Beale will argue from the opposite point of view...