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During the holidays a meeting of representatives from the faculties of the chief colleges met in New York to discuss athletics. This convention arose from Dr. Sargent's visit to the various colleges and was called by the Athletic Committee of Harvard. There were present Prof. Norton and Dr. Sargent, from Harvard; President McCosh of Princeton; Professor Richards of Yale; Mr. Goodwin of Columbia and many other presidents and professors. After a long discussion on athletics, in which every one seemed to be agreed that professionals and professionalism should be rigorously excluded from college athletics, it was decided to appoint...
...conclusion we would recommend all the various organizations to profit, more than is usually the case, by past experience, and we feel sure that if they earnestly endeavor to do this, Eighteen Eighty-Four will see the Crimson victorious wherever it is represented...
...little or no remedy for it, we must, while deeply deploring such a state of affairs, suffer and be still. There is one way, however, in which we may possibly be able to make some little reform, and that is by endeavoring to influence the college correspondents of the various newspapers who for the most part are college men, and frequently undergraduates, while others are exceedingly "fresn." We therefore think that if they could be made to feel that they were in some measure responsible to the college for their published statements they would soon acquire sufficient discretion...
...president; C. Jones of Pennsylvania, secretary; F. G. Schofield of Cornell, treasurer; and W. G. Reed of Bowdion, R. L. Hart of Pennsylvania, and W. W. downs of Wesleyan, regatta committee. The regatta committee was empowered to select judges and a referee. A communication from Saratoga offered to the various crews free transportation to and board at the place, provided the regatta should be rowed on Saratoga take on July 4. This offer was accepted. It was further decided that the championship race should be a fouroared oared shell race, one mile and a half straightaway. A single shell race...
...Michigan Chronicle. A plan was proposed and left to be perfected to a committee of two, by which the news of each college should be sent every week to a head office where all the slips of news should be gathered together and printed and remailed to the various college papers belonging to the I. P. A. The advantages of such a scheme are many, and only papers belonging to the I. P. a. can have this done. The Acta Columblana was chosen head office and the plan will go into effect immediately. As no further work remained...