Word: crimson
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Editors of the CRIMSON...
Furthermore we do challenge the proposition on its intrinsic merits. In a recent letter to the CRIMSON Coach Yost of Michigan said in part: "After two years of restricted athletics, the Board in Control at Michigan voted to withdraw from the Western Conference" because "the live games restriction placed on Michigan easily reduced the playing strength of her team 50 per cent. It lessened the interest of the athletes." When the interest of the athletics is lessened what is to become of intercollegiate athletics, which, outside of study, are the one common possession and aim of the undergraduate body...
...word to allay some misapprehensions in regard to the defeat of the relay team on Saturday will be timely. Both the editorial in Monday's CRIMSON and the communication yesterday are extremely unjust in the conclusions they draw as to the "unexplainable lack of judgment" said to be responsible for the defeat...
...gratification to learn that the hockey management intends to maintain the Freshman rink for a scrub series. The CRIMSON ventured to make the suggestion through no presumption, but because it knew scrub hockey was necessary, and because it was keenly interested in the preservation of athletics. As the manager says in a communication this morning, it is for the undergraduates to form the teams; but experience has shown that if the authorities do not take the lead, others hesitate to do so. We would therefore suggest that blue-books be placed in some convenient place, which may be signed...
...poor critic that resents criticism." The communication published in another column this morning presents a point of view different from that already given by and through the CRIMSON. In taking the stand it did, the CRIMSON, realizing that a bad mistake had been made, blamed the track management for an error in judgment. We still believe that this error was made. To say so can hardly be called jumping at conclusions. No one makes mistakes on purpose; the only fair way to consider the matter is whether or not the track management should have been able to foresee the result...