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...reasons, as I understand it, why the Corporation wish to make a change in the Tree Exercises are these: First, because the present site is overcrowded, and secondly, because the use of football suits and the violence of the scrimmage are offensive to the ladies present. Now it seems to me that both of these difficulties can be obviated...
Thus the Executive Committee have acted for the best throughout, and if there is to be criticism are not the ones to receive it. It does not seem to us, however, that there are grounds for criticism. It is easy to understand how inappropriate, almost sacrilegious, a news stand in the Memorial Transept must seem to many of those in the generation ahead of the college man of today, and further the new arrangement promises to entail no inconvenience. It will be just as easy to buy inside the door as outside, quite luxurious to have the papers brought...
...with the design f humoring the I. C. A. A. A. A. committee, they have kindly consented to reduce the charge to fifty cents. Very likely the charge of $1.00 has kept a number of novices from competing, but that is not the point. The A. A. U. must understand that if an amateur is recognized as such by the Intercollegiate Association, he does not need an additional certificate. When an athlete is allowed by his college to compete in its name and is recognized by the Intercollegiate Association, his position is unimpeachable, while any professional under an alias...
...meeting these objections the report of the Committee to the Board of Overseers first argued "that while it is easy to understand why the Corporation should object to discussion about lands remote from the present property, it can do no harm to suggest such approaches as it might be expected the public spirit of the city would supply as a part of their park system, or to form conjectures as to the improvement of the present grounds, if contiguous property, that everybody knows the college would gladly own, were obtained...
...regrettable that so many college writers try to be merely clever and so waste their power. An instance of this in the present number of the Advocate is "Three Dialogues and a Monologue." It does succeed in being clever. It concerns a young man and a young woman who understand each other well enough to be in a delightful relation of good fellowship, which makes their dialogue amusing and very readable...