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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have noticed with very great pleasure a campaign against the present evils of the athletic administration. The most flagrant of these is the so-called two period rule, which seems to me to defeat its own end. The apparent object of this regulation is to prevent the undergraduates from indulging in sports to the neglect of their studies. It prevents men from competing in three different seasons, not in three different sports. One of the peculiar results is that a person can in one year be a member of the football, the baseball and the track teams, whereas he cannot...
...perfectly willing to admit that the team was greatly handicapped by a short schedule, but with the present general curtailment there is no great possibility of an increase in the number of games next season. It is also true that the trouble with this year's squad was one of quality rather than quantity, and that there will be considerable good material available for next year. The fact remains, however, that the athletes in College who could do much to make the basketball team successful, do not take enough interest in the sport to go out for the team...
...dinner was attended by nearly 300, who were addressed by President Eliot and several of the foremost engineers in the country. This year, on account of the increased interest shown in engineering in the University, the dinner should be even more successful. Its principal importance is in the great opportunity offered men to meet those who are now practicing engineers...
...cards to the secretary. The Seniors must realize that it is extremely important to attend to these things at once. It would not be a difficult matter for everyone who has not already done so, to fill out and mail these blanks today, and it would simplify matters a great deal for the officers...
...under the stress of hard rowing, and it will be carefully watched by Coach Wray from the launch. After the race the squad will be reduced to two eights and a four-oar, and the men dropped will join their class crews, although any man who shows great promise may be again taken on the University squad. A few changes may be made in the make-up of the second crew after the race...