Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Princeton Board of Athletic Control held this afternoon the Board voted unanimously to sever athletic relations with Harvard in all sports. We have been forced to the conviction that it is impossible at present to expect from athletic competition with Harvard that spirit of cordial good will between undergraduates of two universities which should characterize athletic sports. Unless athletic competition between college tends to introduce a feeling of generous chivalry and mutual respect, there can be no valid reason for its continuance Competition carried on in an atmosphere of suspicion and ill will of necessity falls short...
...most part, so congenial as the Harvard-Princeton athletic rivalry have come to an end. But it is also with the feeling that incidents culminating in the break led to an inevitable and unavoidable climax and sthat the action taken yesterday by the Board of Athletic Control was the only one open to an institution which feels that welcome athletic relations must be based on a common friendship rather than on any animosity or ill feeling...
...wrongly, does not care to continue athletic relations with Princeton. We pass no judgment on its opinion in this regard. It has a perfect right to feel exactly as it does, but colleges, like gentlemen do not obtrude when the feeling is not congenial. The Board of Athletic Control has felt that, and we believe that it represents the unanimous opinion of Princeton men that Princeton does not make an exception to this rule of colleges and of gentlemen...
...Nettleton, Chairman of the Beard of Athletic Control, said, "Yale will regret deeply any interruption of those athletic relations that have been enjoyed under the triple agreement. Relations with Princeton and Harvard have always been cordial in New Havent, no change has been considered, and I see no reason why this unfortunate rupture should alter our situation...
...made. First, state Legislatures, by means of constitutional amendment, may be prevented from passing any regulatory laws on textbook or teaching in the university. Decisions of this sort should be left entirely in the hands of the regents. Second, the Board of Regents must be freed from political control as far as possible. There must be no opportunity for packing a Board as Governor Hartley did. By limiting the power of removal to that minimum possessed by the President over the higher federal judges such opportunity would be removed. In the third place the development of the Junior College should...