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...step taken by the captains and managers of the different athletic teams in regard to confining athletics to undergraduates is causing considerable discussion at Yale. The intercollegiate football association took this step recently to go into effect next fall and now the heads of the various athletic associations at Yale have adopted the same plan to go into effect immediately. This was done without any authority save the advice of the Yale Advisory Committee. In view of this action the Yale Law School, which according to this new rule is entirely shut out from athletic teams, held a meeting...
...question of method is now receiving careful consideration, but whatever method be finally agreed upon, we think now, as both the Yale and Harvard representatives thought at the Dual League in 1890, that a change of so radical a nature ought not to go into effect at once, with the result of disqualifying students now at the University and eligible as members of athletic teams under the existing rules...
...Third. Because, even if the foregoing reasons be not accepted as conclusive, we confidently hold that such radical legislation should be prospective in its application, and that at least one year's notice should be given before carrying it into effect...
...same proposition was made to Princeton in December of 1891 with the exceptions that the sports mentioned are only football and baseball and that a clause is inserted specifying the eligibility of players should not go into effect until a similar rule had been adopted between Harvard and Yale, and Princeton and Yale...
Both of these propositions fell through, the first because of a failure to decide upon places satisfactory to both universities, the second because of a disagreement about dates. Yale and Princeton each admitted the justice of putting the time which these rules should go into effect two years from the date of their adoption. By this precaution all chance of unfairness was done away with. The broad application, too, of the rule to all lines of athletics is also significant, in showing the sincerity with which Harvard three years ago attempted to carry out essentially the same plan which...