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...resolutions can be considered under three general heads: In the first place, so far as they are directly anti-professional and express the extreme views of the Harvard faculty on this question. This is an aspect that does not require particular discussion here. In form the resolutions include well enough a complete prohibition of "professionalism" from college athletics. In this respect as in others their effect will depend entirely upon the interpretation given to them and to the degree of strictness or of laxity with which they are enforced. We do not see that there is any common tribunal...
...second place, has the conference committee done wisely in extending its restrictions into such matters of detail as e. g. to prohibit all contests with non-collegiate amateurs, and to insist upon regulating such a comparatively unimportant point (unimportant as concerns the effect of the resolutions in general) as the length of intercollegiate boat-races? At no point in this discussion has student opinion been directly consulted, at least in any such way as to affect the final decision and therefore we do not know that it s worth while to discuss this point now that everything is practically settled...
...meeting of the Lacrosse Association yesterday, a general change of officers took place, caused by the vacancy in the office of president, Mr. W. B. Noble having left college. Mr. C. J. Renter, '84, was elected president; Mr. H. M. Williams, '85, captain, and Mr. E. F. Woods, '85, secretary and treasurer...
...York to be submitted for approval or rejection to the several faculties interested, have been made public. It is of course too early to speculate upon their effect until it is seen how many colleges will finally adopt them. The various provisions contained in them were in general not unexpected, in view of the course of the recent agitation of the matter in the different colleges and in the public press. We reserve any criticism of the measures in detail until further information of their aim and scope shall be made public...
...renders it necessary that their college opponents should have a similar advantage, or the terms would be unequal. This would lead to the employment of professionals in every branch of competitive sport. But as the character of professionals, as a whole, is not high, it is believed that their general employment in college athletics would lead to their speedy decline. Therefore...