Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whether or not intercollegiate athletics of an informal character can be carried on at the University this fall has not yet been decided. Dean Briggs, chairman of the Athletic Committee, told a CRIMSON editor he has received no word from the War Department as to their desires in the matter. He added; however, that with the present plans for intensive military training it was highly improbable that the S. A. T. C. candidates would have time for intercollegiate contests...
...strength, and it is highly unfortunate that the group as a whole should be pilloried for the slight mistakes which one or two may have made. It is furthermore unjust to make the inference that the recent reorganization of the Corps is due to their incompetence. As a matter of fact, the change is chiefly one of administrative detail,--an attempt to centralize functions which it had previously been necessary for three or four persons to perform. There is no intention of eliminating the Faculty from the instructing staff even though we have been so fortunate as to secure...
...realize the immense difficulties attendant upon the operation of a organization like the Regiment, which is in effect a small depot brigade for officers that feeds its leaders into the service at the exact time when they have been trained to be of the greatest military value. As a matter of fact much credit and many thanks are due to those on whom the burden of the year's work has fallen...
...could be reached. There will be no meeting, as R. E. Gross '19 and N. S. Walker '20 are absent in the service, but letters will be sent to them and a decision reached as soon as possible. Those of the Athletic Committee present decided to place the entire matter in the hands of the graduates and undergraduate members and to stand back of any action they may take...
Before referring the matter, the Committee discussed the question and considered the recommendations of the Student Council that a war-time "H" of slightly smaller size be given to all members of major and minor teams who should be considered eligible for insignia by the Council. Dean Briggs, Dean Yeomans, Captain F. J. Moore '93, C. H. Pennypacker '88, of the Boston Latin School, and A. F. Tribble '19, the five members present, decided that no decision could now be made, as Tribble was the only undergraduate member attending. The men in whose hands the question of giving insignia...