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...Physical Training Department yesterday gave out a complete review of the winter interdormitory sport program that is now well under way. Basketball, hockey, track, squash, and indoor baseball are all on a competitive basis and will count points towards the plate to be placed on the tablets in the Common Rooms of the Freshman Halls at the end of the season. Wrestling will probably be organized as an interdormitory sport for the first time this year, as a larger number of Freshmen than usual have elected that form of exercise...
...obstacles to be overcome (cf. Thomas Edison and others) should persuade us to be lenient in our judgements. The whole thing is so obviously unfair; there should be a set of rules established. Running graduates through the gauntlet is becoming a most alarmingly "catch-as-catch-can" sport, or, in another metaphor, a case of dog eat dog. An S. P. C. G., now, might also help out. After all, the graduate has been taught to talk, to fill examination books to bursting, and to pour his vast knowledge forth at the least hint. Of course, he has not necessarily...
...petition of the basketball teams, both University and Freshman, for a training table on the same basis as the major sports, was reluctantly refused, as the Committee did not consider it wise to establish the precedent of supporting training tables for minor sport teams...
...application of the Gum Club for recognition as a minor sport team to the extent that insignia be awarded and the usual provision for the excusing of cuts made by the filing of "before the game" lists, was referred to the Student Council for their recommendation and report...
...application of the Gymnasium team for the authorization of a meet tentatively arranged with the Naval Academy at Aunapolis was refused, in view of the policy of the Committee of not extending the number of trips of minor sport teams outside of New England without special reasons...