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...Princeton faculty has repealed the rule forbidding the nine to play with professionals. There is great rejoicing at Princeton...
...Princeton Faculty, on Friday, rescinded the rule by which the Princeton nine was forbidden to play with professionals. This action leaves Harvard alone in her position in regard to the matter. Now that Princeton, after a trial of the new method, has deliberately decided to return to the old system, it is not probable that any other college will be induced to follow Harvard's example. While there was a good prospect of the anti-professional rule becoming general, we were willing to put up with a good deal of temporary inconvenience in order to bring about the accomplishment...
...anti-professional rule has been given a fair trial here, and thus far no good reason has appeared to justify its existence, much less to warrant its further continuance. Wherein the influence of the nines that have thus far played in Cambridge, is any better than that of professionals, would be a hard question to answer. We certainly do not get as good practice from them as we should from professional teams, and every other nine in the college league has the benefit of professional practice. Under these circumstances we hope the faculty will see fit to consider carefully...
...first place, the rule heretofore has been that if a man once gains possession of a court, he is allowed to hold that court as long as he is connected with the university. His right to the court continues whether he plays on it regularly or only at rare intervals. If be owns the court at the close of the fall season he still has a right to the court in the spring, even if he does not play on it until June. This seems to be an unreasonable privilege. Only men should have courts who use them. The season...
...your correspondent that his views on the subject of co-education have not been changed by experience. He says that its influence on student life is to make that life more decent; that co-education at Cornell is a success; and that sooner or later it will be the rule at all live educational institutions deserving of the name. Columbia will probably not adopt it until the dwellers at that unfortunate monastery emerge sufficiently from barbarism to give over duelling and other mediaeval practices...