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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...were widely known that it is not difficult for a student to take the present academic course in three years, would not most of this cry for a shorter course cease? A very large proportion of men take some additional courses beyond the required amount, merely for the benefit of the courses. More and more every year take the four years work in three. The fact that half a-dozen of these three year men will this year be awarded summa cum or magna cum degrees, and have at the same time been actively connected with college papers or athletics...
...discontinued" seems to have been made without regard for the opinions of those who have most thoroughly investigated the subject. Without intercollegiate contests the freshman teams would fall to the rank of other class teams, which draw out but a few men and give these only a slight amount of irregular practice. It would be doubtful, in fact, whether class teams could be maintained at all without the stimulus of a hard-working freshman team in need of practice and encouragement; but even if they were, the best freshman athletes would have small inducement to train and develope their abilities...
...purposes of reform and are the sources of incessant misunderstanding, quarrels and recriminations between the colleges represented." The president considers that a dual league is worth trying; but one of the evils of intercollegiate sports is not so much the number of them as their intensity-the great amount of preparation undergone to carry them on. The president says, "What is desirable for the right conduct of college sports is that all practice should be done at home and only with other organizations within the same college; that in each sport there should be one, two, or three intercollegiate contests...
...Veterinary school is prospering although at present it is indebted in the University Treasury to the amount of $17,137.19, of which amount $13,000 was for a building for school...
...circular has been sent out by the committee in charge of finishing the Yale gymnasium, soliciting $40,000 more to complete the amount needed for land, building, and equipment...