Word: abolish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...would undoubtedly be a good thing to improve the game itself, but as conditions are at present we doubt if this improvement would increase the popularity of the sport to any substantial degree. The writer of the second communication claims that if the Committee abolishes basketball as an intercollegiate sport, it should be consistent and abolish it entirely. We can not agree with this point of view. If there are men who wish to play the game they should certainly have an opportunity to do so, but there ought not to be a team representing the University in a sport...
There is a good deal of feeling around College that basketball should be abolished as an intercollegiate sport at Harvard, because some men claim that they think the game, as it is played today, is bad. But these same men say that intercollegiate basketball should be allowed. What I want to know is, what the difference might be between the game as played between two colleges and the game as played between two classes? In my opinion if the game is dropped as an intercollegiate sport, the Athletic Committee should at least be consistent and abolish it entirely...
...than half the cause of its roughness, and also doubles the difficulty of the referee's duties. By preventing dribbling it would improve the game more than a hundred per cent., and I am pretty certain that it would only take a little pressure to cause the Committee to abolish it. I should think that it would be much simpler, better, and pleasanter to try to better the sport through the Rules Committee than to hurt it by abolishing it; and I hope, at least, that this suggestion will meet with due consideration. R. P. JORDAN...
...Athletic Committee then passed the following vote: "That in the opinion of this Committee it is not desirable to abolish intercollegiate contests from the date of the final football game until the spring recess." It was also voted "That this Committee approve the plan for a student council as presented by the undergraduate representatives appointed by the four class presidents, and that if this plan is accepted by the undergraduates the Committee will warmly welcome the co-operation of the council...
Suspense is over at last! The results of the petition have taken a definite form and intercollegiate winter sports are no longer in danger of annihilation. The Committee has expressed itself as convinced that "it is not desirable" to abolish these contests, but gives no definite statement of its policy in the future, preferring to deal with individual schedules rather than with any period as a whole. It accepts the student co-operation most willingly, and will doubtless give the new council every opportunity to prove its worth as a factor in the situation. What promises to be a satisfactory...