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...large mass meeting of students and professors of the University of Pennsylvania was held on Monday night, at which some six hundred were present. The meeting was called to take action on the new undergraduate rule, which has occasioned so much controversy of late. The stand that Pennsylvania takes is well shown in the following resolutions adopted at the meeting, and they are interesting as giving the other side of the question, as it appears to that college, which is most seriously affected by the change...
...Second. Because such legislation will, if allowed to stand, check the healthy competition for places on foot-ball teams by restricting the area of competition, will thus decrease the present widespread interest in the game, detract largely from its character, and hamper its normal development as a university sport...
...reasonable one which will meet the approval and support of every Harvard man, and one which, without doubt, may be considered to be prophetic. Whatever action Harvard takes in this matter must certainly not be retroaction, and the letter to Yale is clearly consistent in its relation to the stand which Harvard has long since taken. Harvard is thoroughly in sympathy with the desire to purify athletics in every possible way, and to take any fair, sensible and prudent step to bring this about. The existing troubles can be remedied in a better mode than by applying this rule...
...spirit of the article would certainly imply that Princeton and Harvard will have very little to say about the matter, one way or the other. Yale is undoubtedly taking an independent stand in her efforts to "purify athletics". Whether or not her zeal will carry her so far as to lead her to be dictatorial and hence antagonistical to the best interests of athletics is a question which all true lovers of sports must view with no little apprehension...
...Yale's stand is well illustrated in the following editorial taken from the Yale News...