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...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; and explains the present attitude of Harvard students towards Intercollegiate athletic contests. Since the public has been led to believe in the existence of "evidence" too damaging for publication, affecting the character of "a number of the Harvard team...
...beg leave at the outset to correct a misapprehension on the part of the officers of the Princeton Football Association. The officers of our Association do not doubt that the members of the Princeton team are all duly registered students in Princeton College or University. Instead of establishing this uncontested fact, the Princeton Association should have explained how it happened that two members of the Princeton team, Mr. Cash and Mr. George, were so late, the one in entering and the other in returning to college. The latter is now an instructor in a great preparatory school, and resumed connection...
...beg leave again to correct an extraordinary misapprehension on the part of the officers of the Princeton Association, for which they must alone be held responsible. The Harvard Football Association has not "publicly based its withdrawal from the League upon the charge that Princeton defeated Harvard with a team partly composed of paid and irregular players." It has made no charges whatever against the Princeton Management, whether "general" or special...
...that the concert of the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality is near at hand, I beg leave to offer through your columns, a suggestion to the managers of those clubs. It is a pity that these enjoyable and successful concerts should be anticlimaxed, so to speak, by the careless management of the dancing in Memorial Hall. While we hear nothing but praise of the concert itself, there is many a grumble audible about the poor music and the crowded floor in Memorial. These Glee Club dances are the only Harvard dances we have except at Class Day. They take...
...instructor there is a rush to the library and the man who is lucky enough to get there first takes the magazine and keeps it with true selfishness for the full period allied-seven days. On the part of a number of long suffering students I beg leave to add my plea to the one already made...