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...attitudes of President Eliot and the Nation. From beginning to end of President Eliot's severe arraignment of the game of football as it is now played, there is nothing said in criticism of the game itself to which any reasonable man can take exception. It is a forcible statement of valid objections to the game. His failure to mention the beneficial features of football does not strike one as a denial of them. The only inference is that he thinks that the objections to football are so strong that so long as there are other opportunities for athletic training...
...Brown team. Though their adoption of the title Brown met no outburst of righteous indignation at that college, they were and are no more nor less than a scrub team of the same nature as the team they played. Mr. Hale, their manager, will vouch for this statement...
...Corporation immediately addressed themselves to the reduction of expenses, selecting those ways which were least likely to impair the efficiency of the institution. The success with which the needed reduction was effected may be seen in the Treasurer's Statement given below. "After adding the income of the Stock Account to its capital to make good in part former deficits, there has been a deficit for 1893-94 of only $518.54." The main items in which the reduction was effected were University expenses, repairs of College edifices, general College expenses, summer schools, and Library expenses. In these items alone...
...wish through your columns to correct a statement which has lately appeared. No such organization as the Harvard University Ice Polo Team exists. The games with Cambridge Latin have been scrub games and most of the players participating have been non-Harvard men. Harvard men object to having their names used in connection with mythical organizations...
...Yale Alumni Weekly has the following statement of the probable attitude of the Faculty toward the athletics of the college...