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...Ross '96 - The Race Problem, H. A. Grady...
...institution that may have some bearing on the solution of the football problem is the college conferences, which have finally been organized for active operation by Professor de Sumiohrast, to whom was delegated the power of appointing the undergraduate members of the conference committee. The appointments are W. Ames '95, W. K. Brice '95, J. C. Fairchild '96, R. C. Grew '95, G. G. Murchie '95, E. H. Warren...
...These conferences are an entirely new experiment at Harvard. The questions to be discussed will be those pertaining to college discipline, athletics, and any exceptional problem of administration that may confront the University. The meetings will be a common meeting-ground for Faculty and students for the interchange of opinion. There are several specific subjects that may receive the attention of this deliberative body, among which are the present status of athletics and the matter of honor in examinations...
...Nation again expresses its "oftrepeated conviction that the simple solution of the whole athletic problem lies in concentrating the interest of each college upon home sports, without regard to, or competition or contact with any other college." We must allow that this solution is in theory possessed of great simplicity, - a simplicity very similar to that offered us by the Faculty in their proposed remedy for the evils of intercollegiate football. But a solution must have more than its mere simplicity to recommend it. It is an easy thing to suggest the abolishment of intercollegiate contests...
...High license is the best solution of the problem. - (a) Greatly reduces drunkenness. - (1) By reducing the number of saloons, makes better control possible, and increases profits of saloon keeper. - (2) Makes a license too valuable to risk loss of it by selling to drunkards. - (3) Makes it to saloon keeper's interest to prevent unlicensed selling. - (b) Takes the saloon out of politics. - (1) Where tried, it supersedes all other legislation. - (2) Thus liquor dealer's have no motive for united political action...