Word: minor
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...view of the proposed abolition of winter sports, I should like to say a few words in behalf of the minor teams. Undergraduate opinion is almost unanimous in favor of maintaining the present system. If the position of the Faculty makes this impossible, the question confronts the Athletic Committee of making the compromise which will be most satisfactory to the University as a whole. They have submitted such a proposal. The question now arises: Is this the most satisfactory solution of the difficulty? Is it fair that the minor sports should bear the whole brunt of this curtailment? Hockey, basketball...
...Faculty, therefore, we must frame our arguments, in an effort to maintain the present status of our major sports and at the same time to preserve the minor ones. As a last resort it is necessary to show that the proper move is against real athletic abuses, and not against the extent of participation...
...Athletic Committee has approved a long baseball schedule and the usual football schedule, but when it comes to the question of preserving intercollegiate contests, they consider the advisability of eliminating the minor sports in that respect. Is it the desire of the Faculty that, contrary to their former broad principles, they wish to confine interest in athletics to a few sports? Is this not a narrow, selfish policy? Perhaps they believe that the club system will develop and the interest will continue in that form. But you cannot expect this to happen by quick action; it takes a long time...
...natural that the minor sports, being the less important, should suffer, but this could more fairly have been done by restricting the number of their contests. CHAS. W. SHORT...
...save the applicants from considerable inconvenience. There are a good many technical requirements to be fulfilled before the applications can be considered, chief of which is the demand that a bond be properly filed with the Bursar. Many men have been disappointed in the past through neglect of the minor details. Let their misfortune be a warning to others...