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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-The logic of Prof. Norton's letter has been, I think, unnecessarily condemned and the action of the committee, in some measure, misunderstood. Early this autumn the committee's attention was drawn forcibly to the fact that to disqualify a player three warnings were necessary, and that several elevens were making a practice of playing unfairly and, in some cases, brutally. Knowing that each player could do so twice with impunity, the committee rightly felt that foot-ball played with this spirit ought to be checked, and so far every right-minded student will agree...
...There is some very curious reasoning in Prof. Norton's letter. What changes would the committee have made ? Must the objectionable rules, provided for the punishment of those guilty of misdemeanors, be omitted ? Would the game be played in a more satisfactory way if the code did not contain these safeguards ? And is it true generally that the enactment of laws for the punishment of crime increases the number of criminals and causes the degeneration of those for whom the laws are made ? Foot-ball is not a game for invalids, but it is greatly enjoyed by robust and vigorous...
...letter of the Yale men in reference to the Harvard-Yale foot-ball match was erroneously reported to have been addressed to the faculty. It was directed to Prof. Norton...
...clip the following from the Yale News of Friday : "There appeared in this morning's paper a letter from the chairman of the committee on athletics, forbidding the Harvard eleven from carrying out an arrangement with Yale to play a match game on the polo grounds on Thanksgiving day. This action will cause serious loss, financial and otherwise. In the first place the faculty force the Harvard management to break a definite verbal agreement entered into by representatives of the two colleges acting through the Yale foot-ball president, with the consent of the Harvard president, Mr. Clark...
...that base-ball was brutal because there are rules that forbid intentionally knocking a man down or intentionally striking him. Surely the latter rule indirectly implies more brutality than the ones so much objected to by the committee. It seems to us that the committee objects more to the letter of the rules, the possibilities they suggest, than to their spirit. But after all we object most strenuously to the time they have chosen for their action. It is too late after all arrangements have been made to interpose objections that should have been made before...