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SECTION 4. The duties of the board of reference shall be to decide, subject to the ratification of the association, all questions of admission and expulsion of members, after due notification and correspondence with members of the association, to assume all the functions of an executive committee, to take charge of all literary exercises hereinafter provided, and to act as a committee on credentials...
After the adoption of the constitution the convention assigned the following literary parts for the next meeting : The oration, Acta Columbiana; poem, Williams Argo; history of college journalism, Amherst Student; a paper upon some subject to be hereafter decided upon, Vassar Miscellany. The election of members of the board of reference resulted in the choice of the Acta Columbiana, Brunonian and Williams Athenaeum. It was then moved and carried unanimously that, in view of the interest shown by the Harvard Advocate and Crimson and the Princetonian in sending delegates to the convention, a special invitation to join the association...
...course honors in History and Political Science, the candidate must have passed with a good average the required work in Greek, Roman and English History and a special examination in some particular subject. The subjects for 1883 are the Reign of Elizabeth and the History of the 18th Century leading to the French Revolution...
...decided benefit to the young men, augmenting their stock of health and increasing their powers of mental application. And as for their suffering physical injury from such relaxation, I have heard of nothing of the sort. I do not at all agree with what Chancellor Crosby said upon this subject in an address, or lecture, the other evening. It is a matter upon which I am hardly inclined to believe him hardly competent to speak, for he lacks experience. So far as I am aware, the University of New York has done nothing in the way of athletic sports...
...also add to this testimony that of the Yale correspondent of the N. Y. Post, who has been investigating the subject and who reports that he "has consulted with some of the leading professors as to the effect of athletics on men's mental training, and invariably he has been told that it is highly beneficial. With the exception of a few days before the one or two great contests, they say that during the whole period of training the athletic men display wonderful quickness in apprehension, and work harder than the majority of their fellows who have nothing...