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...recurrence. In these efforts both faculty and students are united. The students are anxious to remove what they now begin to consider the disgrace of repeated defeats, while the Faculty seek to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education. Their latest move has been a particular request to the corporation, leading to the appointment of a new professor to the chair of Rhetoric which has been vacant for ten years. The students show their interest, not only by a great increase in the number who take active part in the various debates...
...proposed the dropping of the mile walk and the substitution of the three mile run, and Swarthmore wants all men shut off college teams who have in the years previous been trained by athletic clubs. Discussion on the question of the walk promises to be rather lively. Swarthmore's move is aimed against the men who live during the summer at the expense of an athletic club. It does not seem likely to go through...
Harvard athletics are gradually working towards Soldiers Field. The next branch of athletics to go, - not altogether permanently, however, - is baseball. The 'varsity will begin its outdoor practice on the field, but will later move back to Holmes Field, where a "scalped" diamond will be prepared as soon as the ground has become sufficiently dried for removing the turf. This "skinned" diamond will be a great improvement over the old turf one which was so uneven, and remained wet and soggy for such a long time after a rain that not only games but regular practice were interfered with...
...Fenno, Mr. Thomas Motley, Capt. Reed and Dr. Brooks talked to the 'varsity crew squad on the necessity of working in a different spirit than current reports now credit them with. One and all pointed out the need of pulling together and backing Mr. Watson's every move with the determination necessary to do justice to him and to ourselves...
...bring the games at a comparatively early date, it is said that Yale would be glad to vote for a change of the constitution so as to make the Mott Haven games occur on the first Saturday in June. The Yale management have not said officially that they would move such a change, but it is understood that they think it would be advantageous to all the colleges...