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...intercollegiate constitution provides that the champion athletic events shall occur the last Saturday in May. This year such a provision makes the date May 25, whereas the first Saturday in June comes upon the first of the month. It has been the custom for Yale and Harvard to hold their dual contest before all the colleges meet; such an arrangement followed out this year would bring them together upon the track...
...expected that the new candidates for the athletic team will begin preliminary work within a week. Baseball training will be deferred to a much later date than usual, and contrary to a custom of some years standing, the services of a professional coach will be dispensed with this spring...
...winter meeting of the Harvard Athletic Association will be held in the Hemenway Gymnasium on Saturday, February 16, at two o'clock. There will be but one meeting this winter instead of two as has been the custom heretofore...
...that it is as the communication puts it, "an insult to the well-behaved members of the Association." The analogy the CRIMSON draws in regard to proctors in dormitories I consider far fetched and inapplicable. The presence of the proctors in the dormitories is a matter clearly established by custom. On the other hand, the closing of the gallery is a distinct abolishment of a custom already established...
...first thought the action may appear a bit arbitrary, but we believe it has since the founding of the association been the custom to leave all matters requiring immediate action to the discretion of the directors and precedent is not lacking to justify their present position. The disturbances have almost invariably occurred on Thursdays, and it is to be expected that by removing the chief temptation, the misconduct will stop. If it does not, we suppose the directors will have to close the gallery altogether. We cannot see that the measure is "an insult to the well-behaved members...