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Resolved, That the members of the Conference Committee deem the marking system, now in use at Harvard, unsuited to the elective system, and that they strongly recommend a change...
...Lathrop. The additional employment of a special instructor in boxing is thus unnecessary for purposes of general exercise, and would simply establish a precedent for the employment of a host of instructors in similar specialties. Aside from the principle involved we would discourage the petition, as we deem the man, in whose interest in part the petition is circulated, unfitted for such official connection with Harvard University...
...that in his personal opinion there was no possible chance of our playing any inter-collegiate games this year; but he also said that if the game as played this year by the other colleges proved satisfactory, there was every chance of our playing next year; therefore the management deem it advisable that the game should be kept up through class games, which will be arranged later. A delegate has gone to New York to endeavor to secure Harvard's position in the league for another year...
...declared to be "incompetent," "slothful," and "reluctant to play with any snap," etc., etc. Their last year's crew was decried in just the same way; and yet the worse the reports that gain credence about Yale teams, the stronger the teams prove to be. We do not deem it necessary to warn our crew that they have a strong, yes, a very strong crew opposing them; the fact is too patent. But we would merely remind them that a gentleman visiting New Haven recently saw the crew row, and declares it to be very fast and very powerful...
...after year, and yet know him only through the newspaper reports of what he is doing elsewhere, we feel sure that he would condescend to enlighten the heretics, at home instead of laboring abroad. With this suggestion and faint remonstrance, we would express the hope that the President will deem the invitation a standing one, and accept it when the labors of his position are less exacting...