Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton students feel very sore over the unqualified surrender which they have been drawn into making from their position. An Alumnus of several years said that the way matters stood at present placed the students in a puerile light, that they were wrong in not providing for some future action, that a system of espionage did exist in the college, and that he thought the majority of younger Alumni believed it. As it stands at present it is uncertain whether any further action will be taken...
...last action of the Athietic committee of the faculty will not go very far towards increasing the popularity of that committee among the students. To condemn arbitrarily a student before allowing him a word in his own behalf, is hardly consistent with the recognized principles of justice and fair dealing. The endorsement of this style of procedure by the faculty will tend to increase the bad feeling already existing between the authorities and the students. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the decision in question originated with the committee, and that it will not be approved by the faculty...
...objects for which the club was founded, was the promoting of rifle practice by means of the interest excited by matches with teams from other colleges. The time has now come for action in this direction. There must be material among our students from which to pick an excellent team of four, six. or even eight men. We would suggest that the club should write to the various colleges, and, if possible, make arrangements for some team matches. Meanwhile, if some recognized authority, like the National Rifle Association, or the Forest and Stream, or Spirit of the Times, would lend...
...executive committee of the athletic organizations will meet tonight in 41 Matthews, to take action in regard to the proposed conference of students interested in athletics, to be held at Columbia...
...Reed, inter-collegiate bicycle champion for 1883, has written a long letter to the Acta Columbiana in which he unwisely condemns the action of the delegates at the recent meeting of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association in deciding to have the two mile bicycle race in future run in heats. Mr. Reed says that a two mile race is particularly exhausting and claims that hardly anyone is strong enough to ride two two-mile heats in an afternoon. He mentions that "in 1883 the winner spent the night after the race in an agony, fighting for breath with the assistance...