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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hands of the undergraduates, who would object very strongly to any curtailment of the various athletic schedules." And even if the Yale faculty did not do so, the undergraduates would have little to fear. President Hadley has been quoted as saying. "Some" of the students "wish to go home for Saturday or Sunday. Others go to the nearest city to amuse themselves. Each of these things, particularly the latter, is a more serious cause of interruption to college work than are most of the intercollegiate sports. If sports keep the students together, I am afraid we shall do more harm...
...foremost in the land, and placed our Medical School on the high road to becoming so, this University has now established a School of Business Administration. It was President Eliot who foresaw that professional schools must receive only holders of the bachelor's degrees; and to him must go the credit for the greatness of our University, which, as he himself has just said, "is the only university in the country organized on a true university basis." And the strength of our university basis is increased by the organization of this new school, which is among the first recognitions...
...will turn toward social pursuits, at least emasculating, if not vicious. If, with the abolishment of winter sports, the interest does turn toward social things, the Faculty will find itself no better off. We may then look for rules limiting the number of times a month a man may go in town, the number of social clubs he may belong to, or the number of "Brattle Halls" a Freshman may attend during the winter...
...Springfield performance, to be given in the Court Square Theatre, on Wednesday, April 22, may be obtained in Cambridge until tomorrow; after tomorrow in Springfield. On Saturday, April 18, tickets for the performances on Tuesday, April 28, and Friday, May 1, in the Pi Eta Theatre, Cambridge, will go on sale at the University Book Store...
...interest that draws men to these sports in the winter is the prospect of the intercollegiate games. The sports are new and they require stimulus. Hence they will cut short the only interest of the undergraduate life at that dull time of the year, and all the men who go out for hockey and basketball, most of whom do not partake in the major sports, will spend their time idly indoors. Is this what the Faculty desires? Then, too, is it not unfair to the men who have devoted their time to the building up of these sports...