Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Haven, Conn., Feb. 17.--A second triangular athletic conference with Yale and Princeton takes place tomorrow afternoon. The chairmen of the athletic committees or boards of control meet in New York to arrange the details of schedules for games, races, and meets for spring contests. Professor Corwin is chairman of Yale's Board of Athletic Control, Dean McClelahan will be spokesman for Princeton while Prof. R. B. Merriman will represent Harvard at this conference...
Yale's Board of Athletic Control, at its first meeting since America's entry into the World War adopted a set of radical alterations in the general athletic policy. The changes which were made were presented to the board in a petition from the undergraduates, and in some cases varied widely from the plans which have been under consideration by the alumni who have conferred with the University and Princeton for the control of athletics in the triangular league...
Among the most important changes are four main points which Yale has adopted: Development of the best possible major teams general participation in athletics by the undergraduate body; employment of a permanent director of athletics; appointment of a resident graduate executive committee by the board of control. These general matters have been discussed for some time but this is the first time a decision has been reached...
...seems almost criminal to let this situation slip from our hands into the control of an Eastern monarchy. The Slavs naturally turn to us as their friends, and it is to our interest that they should fare well, that they should harbor no hate against us. There is no natural sympathy between the Russian and Japanese,--that inscrutable Eastern people which has risen to its powerful position through Prussian ideals of military efficiency. But Russia is too far away from us. We are satisfied with this war for demolishing autocracy in Germany and sit back content to see it overrun...
...benefits to be derived from a common understanding between different units are becoming more evident each year. Organization is something to be sought for in intercollegiate athletics as in any other instance of the outside world. Co-operative legislation and control mean the minimizing of inherent advantage, disadvantage, and misunderstanding. Unification of policies will result in the smoothness which occurs when each college is working toward a common end in complete accord. With the universities of this part of the country united in two or three big alliances it will be possible to set and maintain a standard of sports...