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...have been seen listening at doors and gaining admission to rooms under false pretence; fifth, that the night watchman has been seen peeping into lighted windows on the first floors; sixth, that railroad officials have been invited to note down all students leaving town and to report their names; seventh, a barber has been questioned by members of the faculty and threatened for withholding information...
...seventh resolution provides...
...seventh resolution forbids boat races longer than three miles. The important ground for this is the danger to health from a four-mile race. But if there is any such danger, any college which recognizes it will have to stop four-mile races whether other colleges do or not. If Harvard and Princeton believe that four miles is too long a course, and it can be proved by medical authority, Yale and other colleges will almost certainly have to come to the same conclusion...
...seventh resolution is very objectionable and unjust. Many famous boating men who have graduated, and leading physicians declare that a four mile is far better than a three-mile race. A majority of our graduate committee on boating are reported as being in favor of a four-mile race, and their opinion is thus entirely ignored despite the fact that their appointment was endorsed by the faculty...
...about gate-money and fences are well known. Their idea is to cause all expense to be borne by the wealthier students, who can afford to subscribe to the maintenance of athletics. This for sooth brings about a spirit of democracy! Harvard democracy we had better call it. The seventh resolution caps the climax. Our patience has already been sorely tried, but the faculty have carefully kept the heaviest blow for the last. Our dear friend Columbia, with whom our experiences have been so pleasant, had to be propitiated, and this is the result embodied in few and choice words...