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...voted to permit the Freshman hockey team in the future to arrange games every other year at Princeton with the Princeton Freshmen. The entry of only two eight-oar crews in the American Henley will be permitted this year. Managers of major sport teams were authorized to wear the "H" after the April hour examinations if they are in good standing...
Contrary to the announcement given out a week ago, inter dormitory baseball will be organised this year as usual between the three Freshman dormitories, it had been planned to drop it this year a Freshman sport due to lack of interest in recent years...
...years ago the sport writers of Boston papers were offered $100 apiece to refrain from mentioning the Yale game until the week immediately preceding it; they refused, claiming, in effect, that the importance of the Yale game was largely due to them...
...remedy for a situation which is not "such a great evil anyway" Mr. Reynal suggests that publicity be limited. To do this arbitrarily is an impossibility; a few years ago the sport writers of Boston papers were offered $100 apiece to refrain from mentioning the Yale game until the week immediately preceding it; they refused, claiming, in effect, that the importance of the Yale game was largely due to them. Nor would any benefit result from restricting the information given out daily after practice; the only result would be that the papers would print a large amount of football news...
...restricting the sport writers from the press stand, is it necessary to point out that it would also require that they be restricted from the Stadium as well? This would not be easy; it would require that everyone except undergraduates and alumni be excluded. And even then the practicality of such a measure is to be questioned, seriously. No, the only way of cutting down on publicity is to make football of less importance; the tremendous amount of space given in metropolitan dailies to the sport now is the result, primarily, of the stress which colleges lay on the game...