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...annual meeting of the executive committee of the intercollegiate athletic association will be held in New York tonight. Action will be taken on the applications for membership in the association received from Brown and Dartmouth at the meeting on January 21, and rules concerning intercollegiate sport will be discussed. Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Cornell and Columbia will be represented. R. E. Sard '05 is the representative of the University...
...University gymnastic team will hold a joint exhibition meet with Yale in the Gymnasium this evening at 8 o'clock. Although the Yale team has had considerably more experience, there is every reason to expect a relatively good showing by the University team. Since the revival of the sport last year a small number of men have been practising regularly under the direction of Mr. Dohs and Captain G. F. Evans '05, and with the material added this year and the experience already gained, the team should show considerable improvement over last year's exhibition with Columbia...
...Athletic Committee at its last meeting announced an amendment of the rule passed October 13 "that no student be allowed to represent the University in more than two branches of sport in any one year" to the following: "that no student be allowed to represent the University in more than two of the three periods of sport." The change was voted on October 16, but through an oversight was not announced at that time...
...kill and disable as many of the enemy as possible. To sur prise, ambuscade, and deceive the enemy, and invariably to overwhelm a smaller force by a greater one, are the expected methods of war. But there is no justification for such methods in a manly game or sport between friends. They are essentially ungenerous, and no sport is wholesome in which ungenerous and mean acts, which easily escape detection, contribute to victory, whether such acts be occasional and incidental, or habitual." President Eliot acquits both the public and the average player of any liking for these football evils...
...this very temptation one of the best possible opportunities for the development of gentlemanly instincts? It is this temptation, together with the temptation to "quit" and to weaken in a crisis, which enables men to make modern football of educational value in their development instead of a mere sport. Men would not devote themselves for months to the arduous training and drudgery were there not a strong incentive; and they would not feel the sense of duty in maintaining the standards of the game if the incentive were not a good one. Many people complain that football absorbs more time...