Word: circularity
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...circular containing the following resolutions has been received by the several athletic associations...
Messrs. Sloane of the college of New Jersey, Sargent of Harvard, Professor Van Vleck of Wesleyan University, Professor Goodwin of Columbia, and Professor Morton of Harvard, met at Columbia College Tuesday, and addressed a circular to each college interested, to the effect that as there is no prospect that the details of the plan will be received with general favor, no further move will be made by the committee. The resolution to which the greatest objection was offered was that which provides that no college organization shall row, or play base-ball, foot-ball, lacrosse, or cricket, except with similar...
...following is the official record of the recent meeting in New York of the inter-collegiate conference committee: "The answers received from the colleges and universities to which the circular of the inter-collegiate conference on athletics was sent, while indicating a general concurrence in the essential principles of the resolutions recommended for adoption have shown such diversity of opinion in regard to the details of these resolutions, that the undersigned are instructed by the conference to inform your faculty that no further joint action is proposed...
...anonymous circular attacking the faculty of Princeton College in a very satirical and vigorous manner; has been distributed among the students there, and has been the cause of much excitement. A mass meeting of over 500 students was called together and held in a hired hall in town, as the dean refused to allow them the use of any college building, and a set of resolutions was drawn up addressed to the trustees. The second resolution, in regard to the new athletic rules, shows that much the same sort of feeling exists there between the faculty and students...
...dean seems to be the chief point of attack, as he is regarded as the source of all the evil. The circular letter says of him: The students say that matters have reached a crisis and think that publicity is the only means of obtaining relief from their grievances. For this reason they have not only petitioned the trustees, but have set the matter before the general public...