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These resolutions were widely discussed, several gentleman calling particular attention to the opinion often expressed by the faculty that student's meetings seldom express real student feeling. This meeting, it was earnestly hoped, would not be of this character. The two petitions, the faculty held, only expressed the individual opinion of the signers; this meeting was called to give voice to the united sentiment of the college...
...petition to the faculty which has been placed in the office of the Cooperative Society. As the faculty meeting at which it is to be presented is called for tomorrow afternoon it is necessary to sign at once. As it is intended to be a free and voluntary expression of opinion it was not deemed best to carry it around from room to room, as in that case some might be influenced to sign against their convictions. But because it is voluntary and each man desiring to sign must take the trouble upon himself to go to the office...
Apart from the judiciousness of any detailed rule of this nature, we also object to this particular rule as it stands. Many old rowing men, and medical men, who have been consulted, and who are prepared to express any opinion, say that a three-mile race is apt to be more injurious to the members of the crew than a four-mile race would be. The reason for this is that although the strain lasts a shorter time, it is of a much more violent nature in a three-mile, than in a four-mile race...
...have obvious reasons for believing that in so important a matter action taken in mass meeting of the entire college would be likely to have more weight with the faculty and probably elsewhere, than the secret petition of the officers of our athletic societies, however accurately such petition may express the drift of college sentiment...
...absolutely necessary to me that the faculty should fully understand the position taken by the students in regard to the matter of the new athletic regulations, and as the college papers have as yet failed to present that position as I conceive it to be, I shall endeavor to express what appears to me to be the student feeling. If I am mistaken in my interpretation of that sentiment, I do not doubt that I will soon be corrected through your columns. In the first place, I should like to have it understood that we do not question the good...