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...order to change the ruinous law lately passed against playing professionals, says the Princeton correspondent of the N. Y. Post, it is further necessary for a repeal to pass the board of trustees only, as it has passed the faculty already. They stipulate, however, that the university nine may play but four nines of the league, and in Princeton only...
...their action, a bare majority of the Harvard faculty voted to make the studies of upper classmen elective; it is only three years since they voted to make attendance on recitations voluntary; yet I doubt if ten members of that faculty could be found today who would advocate the repeal of either of those measures. It is because they have seen its fruits that the faculty of Harvard University believe in the elective system. [Times...
Among the recent liberal innovations at Oxford is the repeal of the condition formerly attached to all fellowships condemning the holders to single blessedness. Another is that women are allowed to attend all university lectures on history and literature...
...misfortune of the present regulation by which the nine is forbidden to play professional teams on the home grounds. By this regulation the men are really compelled to go to New York in order to find a good team with which to obtain practice. If the authorities will repeal this decree professional clubs can be invited, and will gladly accept, to play the 'Varsity in Cambridge, and in this way the best interests of all will be subserved; for while there may be well founded objections to playing professional teams, their conduct has always been found as gentlemanly and respectable...
...Ingalls yesterday argued in the Senate against the repeal of the pension arrears legislation...