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Dates: during 1890-1899
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GENTLEMEN: - My attention was arrested by a letter in your paper from Mr. Arthur Brewer on the subject of the last action of the Faculty on the question of intercollegiate football, a copy of which letter appeared in a New York daily. The commendable spirit which Mr. Brewer shows in advising quiet acquiescence in the vote of the Faculty, on the ground that age is wise and youth is foolish, is a new and strange thing to find in an undergraduate. But tenderly as this budding humility should be fostered, the crisis that has suddenly come in the life...
...response to the vote of the Faculty four weeks ago, the Athletic Committee met and after a thorough consideration sent the letter which is given below...
...personal injury, and of eliminating from the contests the unsports-manlike spirit which marked the game at Springfield this year, and to report the result of their deliberations to the Committee before arranging games with other colleges. A few days later the chairman of the Committee, in a letter to Dr. Brooks, urged the importance of giving up the summer practice, of terminating the season not later than the Saturday before Thanksgiving Day, and of reducing materially receipts and expenditures, confining the contests to the home grounds of the competitors...
...latest word received from President Eliot was from Genoa. In a previous letter he mentioned having travelled up the Nile as far as the second cataract. It is not yet definitely known when he expects to return...
...innovation appeared on the front page of Wednesday's News, which was filled with a number of letters from prominent graduates of Yale written in answer to the question "What is Yale's greatest need." The prevailing sentiment in them all seemed to be that the greatest need is an increased fund for general university purposes. One letter says that if Yale is to become primarily strong the Corporation must be re-organized since the business interests of the University should be attended to by business men and not by clergymen. The News says editorially in summing everything...