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...purpose of this communication is to show that at least some of those officially interested protest against the policy of regulating the number of men in Memorial according to the kitchen capacity...
...forward to a time when there shall once more be but one man to each seat in Memorial. The kitchen facilities could accommodate thirteen hundred, and board would then be so mewhat cheaper; therefore, say they, let us have the thirteen hundred. Now against such a policy we emphatically protest. That the capacity of Memorial Hall should be tested by its kitchen might be a necessity, but let it never be an ideal. Memorial Hall administers not only to the stomachs, but also to the minds of students, and better that a little more should be paid for the privileges...
...like to call attention to the badly ventilated condition of the Harvard Cooperative tailor shop. If the miserable condition of the place is not a disgrace to the college, it is at least a material factor in reducing the receipts of the society. Moreover, I wish for one to protest emphatically against any Harvard organization's compelling laborers to work in such an atmosphere through...
...view of the approaching winter meetings, I wish to protest against the continuance of a long standing abuse of college athletics. The so-called sparring matches held in years past at Cambridge have as a rule been mere exhibitions of unscientific, brutal "slugging," degrading to the participants and spectators and disgraceful to the association under whose auspices they have been held. Contents into which athletes enter "for blood" and not infrequently come out wearing the laurels of a "knock out," are unworthy of recognition as legitimate sports, and deserve the condemnation of friends of college athletics...
...name of those who believe that Harvard is and ought to be a university and not merely a college, I wish to protest against the action of the Athletic Committee in refusing to ratify the election of Captain Waters. We believe that every member of the University, no matter in what department, has a vested right to represent Harvard in athletics. This vested right it has been found necessary to abridge to a certain extent to kill the canker that threatened the very life of intercollegiate athletics-the so-called "professional" athlete. This was done by the one year residence...