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...Overseers and Corporation appointed a joint committee to consider the entire subject of the regulation of athletic sports, and gave teeth to their action by instructing the Athletic Committee to sanction no commitments by Harvard for intercollegiate contests after December 1, 1906. Late in November, as the joint committee had made no report, authority was granted to arrange contests with other colleges up to July...
While the joint committee deliberated, the future of athletics became the subject of general and sometimes acrimonious discussion. Football was the favorite target, but the questions of professional coaches in all sports, training tables, commercialism, and many other phases were hotly debated. The merits of competition in sports were challenged and defended. In February of 1907 President Roosevelt addressed the undergraduates at Cambridge and made a vigorous defense of competitive athletics, especially in their rougher forms. His audience was most receptive, and his remarks were generally accepted as a challenge to the views of President Eliot which had been frequently...
...anxiety of the undergraduates was allayed by the report of the joint committee which appeared in March, 1907. Its recommendations were not drastic. The three Deans were to become automatically the three faculty members of the Athletic Committee, and minor changes were made in the method of selecting undergraduate members. The Committee was recommended to reduce expenses; to reduce the number of contests and the length of trips; and to use their efforts in connection with other colleges to eliminate professional coaches. The main thing was that intercollegiate sports were to be continued under the supervision of the Committee...
...purpose of these debates is to sequaint students in American colleges with French life and institutions. The debate is held under the joint suspices of the French Department, and the Debating Council...
From these trials tomorrow night, six men will be retained for the final debate on April 28. The debate is under the joint auspices of the French Department and the Debating Council of the University. Speeches will be in English; the meeting is open to all men in the University...