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...committee on the Regulations of Athletics have prepared an answer to the communication received from Princeton November 28. The full text of the reply will be found in the supplement to today's CRIMSON
Under ordinary circumstances any statement of the officials of the Princeton Football Association in regard to the constitution of their team would have been transmitted by us to the officers of the Harvard Association, with the request that they make answer. But since the communication of the Princeton Association contains grave public charges against one of the athletic organizations over which this Committee has supervision, we have undertaken to examine the evidence transmitted to us and also such other evidence as we could discover. This letter, which we beg leave to address to you, states the result of our investigations...
...intimated that scholarships have been conferred by the Harvard Faculty in order to attract athletic men. In answer to this charge it is only necessary to state, if indeed any statement is necessary, that all scholarships in Harvard University are conferred by special votes of a Faculty or of the Academic Council, and confirmed by the Corporation; and that in both bodies the only grounds of bestowal are good scholarship and need. It should perhaps be added, in specific answer to the allegation that "a number of the Harvard Eleven are at present beneficiaries of the college funds," that only...
...offers have ever been made to me." Mr. Dennison says: "The extract is false from beginning to end. I was never offered any inducement to play on the team either by Mr. Sears or anybody else." Mr. Sears is absent in Europe. We have written to him, and his answer will be at your disposal, if you so desire, when it arrives...
These rules were passed by the combined efforts of Yale and Harvard, but proved ineffective. A Princeton player, who was challenged under them as ineligible to play, took refuge in a technicality at the meeting held Nov. 14, and refused to answer any questions, and Yale and Harvard were outvoted by Princeton and the smaller colleges. The Harvard Football Association then felt that only one course was open to it, namely-to withdraw from the present League, and to frame rules which should suppress present objectionable practices, and should govern the constitution of its own team hereafter. This course left...