Word: matter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...problem that has confronted Harvard undergraduates in many, many years. Go to the CRIMSON office and add your name to the list; but remember that in so doing you are pledging yourself to do your share in upholding the undergraduate crusade against the distraction caused by athletics. Unless the matter is taken in serious earnest our efforts will go for naught. We believe that we have the best remedy for the abuses to which the Faculty objects; but if the spirit in which it is undertaken is offensive, the Faculty will adhere to what it believes to be a remedy...
...appreciate the fact which has of late been a matter of concern to the Faculty that the standard of scholarship in the University has not improved in recent years, and we are in entire sympathy with any measures that will have the effect of permanently bettering the standard of scholarship. We also realize that in intercollegiate athletics as conducted at present there are certain elements detrimental to scholastic interests. The most important of these is the feeling among the undergraduates that athletics take precedence over studies; which manifests itself in cutting lectures on the days of important contests...
...coming back on April 27 to face the most serious athletic crisis in many years. The personal opinions of graduates and undergraduates are going to be of the greatest importance in coming to a conclusion that in the end will be for the best interests of Harvard. Think the matter over therefore; talk with graduates and other men of experience; explain to them why we believe intercollegiate athletics are essential, and why the Faculty believes they should be curtailed. Thus we may be able to arrive more easily at the proper solution...
...every man in public capacity is that he shall not represent any interest but the interest of the people. The conception of the real relation between business and the people is just coming into view. It is cause of the republic that should be upheld above private interest no matter what...
...object of this article is to remind the students of their responsibility in this matter: maintaining quiet after 10 o'clock, not only in the dormitories where the athletes live, but also in the streets near by. It is never ill will that causes a disturbance at night, but thoughtlessness pure and simple. A thoughtless noise, however, is just as effective as an ill-willed noise in keeping a man awake; and as sleep is of such vital importance to the teams, we ask every man to make a point first of keeping quiet himself and second, of reminding anyone...