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...report showing the result of the investigations made by the Committee of the Faculty on Athletics, is to be published and distributed. The report is certain to contain valuable information on a subject that has never been carefully and fully investigated before-the real position of athletics in college life. Exaggerated ideas of the great amount of time spent by athletes in training, and of the consequent loss of time that ought to have been devoted to college work proper, etc.- will be confirmed or disproved by the result of this report. The committee has spared no pains to make...
...very interesting article on famous Harvard ball players of former years, and what they are doing in active life to-day, will appear in the next Boston Sunday Globe. The Sunday Globe will also contain the best report of tomorrow's Harvard-Yale game...
...into the curriculum for next year, is only open to those who have had practice in elocution before. This rule bars many men from taking the course, and is especially hard on the seniors, some of whom want to take the course as a preparation for their future life. We hope the restriction now put upon English 10 will be take off, and the course made like any of the other electives. It would certainly be a great convenience to many men, and other precautions could be taken to keep the course from getting over-crowded...
This week's Sporting Life has an article on the Yale crew...
...full success of the experiment, adds this conclusion: "The testimony of these exceptionally competent witnesses confirms the evidence which comes from many other sources, and it is to this effect. The attendance, although voluntary, has been good. The vesper services have been thronged. There never was more religious life and activity at Harvard than to-day. The tone of morals is exceptionally healthful. Public sentiment in college is on the side of sincere and manly piety. The old practice of appointing a single preacher and compelling the students to hear him had to be given up at Harvard...