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...important bearing on the Council's decision next Monday. It is absurd to call last evening's vote an expression of undergraduate opinion. Altogether less than 3 per cent of the College voted in hockey's favor, and excluding those men vitally connected with the game as a University sport, only 1 and 1-2 per cent. In the discussion of other timely and absorbing questions at previous Forums it is true that the number of men attending has been no greater, but that is beside the point. Last evening's Forum presumably brought out all the pros and cons...
...Forum held last evening to consider the advisability of making hockey a major sport, 69 men were present, who voted on the final recommendation--49 in hockey's favor, 20 against it. Ten of the 49 who voted for it were members or managers of this year's University squad. A number of others had played hockey on University or Freshman squads in the past. Giving all the benefit of the doubt to hockey's backers, 35 men, not directly connected with the game voted for its promotion to major-sportdom. At a meeting called for the purpose of securing...
...Should Hockey be Made a Major Sport?" was the question discussed at the University Forum in the Union last evening. At the conclusion of the discussion, those present declared themselves in favor of making the sport a major by the vote...
...chair called upon Captain Gardner to make the first address. He declared that the change in the status of the sport would benefit it by increasing its importance in the eyes of the Athletic Committee, by making members of the team eligible to the Varsity Club, and by removing from the sport the stigma of the appellation minor. The number of rinks in this country, the extent of the sport, and undergraduate interest in it warrant the proposed change. Twenty-one colleges, 32 private schools and 44 public schools now play hockey regularly. In particular, Harvard's record...
...Lowrey '13, on the negative, outlined the limitations of the sport. It does not allow men who have never played before to become skilful enough to play the game in college. The most important argument against the sport is that only 17 men can be kept busy at one time and that there is no provision made for those who are cut from the squad...