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...Voted, That in the opinion of the Board of Overseers intercollegiate football at the University should be abolished when it is shown that the existing serious evils and abuses of the game cannot be corrected...
Yesterday, while watching the hammer throwers of the Mott Haven squads, I saw a serious accident narrowly averted. Perhaps not much thought was given to it by any one, but the fact remains that a passer-by who was looking in another direction came so near having his brains dashed out by the thrown hammer that it made my hair stand on end. Now, this hammer throwing is done at a place where people are constantly passing and without any extra precautions. It is made more dangerous by the fact that a large indiscriminate crowd congregates about Holmes Field watching...
...know where to go to ring in an alarm. As it happened the fire was a small one, and was quickly put out by the Department, with no loss but the furniture of the room in which the fire started. If the conflagration had been of a more serious nature, and the same delay had occurred, there would have been little chance of saving the building by the time the Fire Department reached the scene...
...making an assignment under the present system the facts considered are the needs of the student, and his promise of intellectual ability as indicated by his work in college. Scholarships are ordinarily assigned on the basis of a previous year of work in college. Students who have incurred a serious college censure in the course of the year, and those who obtain leave of absence for the year in which the scholarship would be payable are not considered as candidates for a scholarship. Students not in need of aid cannot honorably apply for a scholarship; a scholarship cannot properly...
...intellectual pursuits. It becomes the work of the college not to develop right ideals, but to cultivate them; not to broaden the field in which mental activity has to play, but to furnish the first stimulus to any real mental activity at all. Obviously there is here a serious incongruity between the desirable and the necessary in a college education, and the fault lies with the students themselves. By their devotion to athletics they give to the school boy just the stimulus which he least needs, and which is accordingly the worst for him. His youthful vigor might be trusted...