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...College of Liberal Arts, Boston University, has organized an athletic association, and intends to put a foot ball team, and a base ball nine in the field...
Then follows an account of the records broken during the past year. Mr. Coolidge closes his report with the following remarks in regard to betting. "Athletics at Harvard are now partially under the ban of the faculty and everything must be done to put them on a sound footing. Undoubtedly the strongest feeling against athletics is caused by the prevalence of betting and I should therefore urge that the association pass a vote, providing that those who accept offices in the association shall have no pecuniary interest in any contest...
...overstated, for it is there that all the class officers are elected, and the class as a body does not exist or begin to act until after this meeting has taken place. The election of a temporary captain for the football eleven is the first thing necessary to put the men to work practicing, as nothing can be done without a head of some sort. This done, and that as soon as possible, we shall hope to see all suitable men of the entering class working with a will to put a good eleven in the field this fall...
...Saturday afternoon the steps of University, and the walks in front of that building were scattered over with anxious young men waiting for the lists announcing the successful candidates in the recent fall entrance examinations to be put...
Meanwhile another knot of students was assembled behind the backstop on Holmes watching the practice of the nine, under the direction of Captain Phillips. Of this there is nothing worthy of especial mention, as the summer's inactivity had somewhat put the men out of form. It is a good sign that so many men were present to encourage the players, and it is to be hoped that the numbers will not decrease as the season advances...