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J. A. Gilman '16, captain of next year's football team, W. J. Boles '18, T. H. Enwright, Jr. '18, and F. W. Ecker '18, manager of the second University football team, were dropped from the College by the authorities yesterday afternoon on account of troubles with the Office in...
The announcement that three men of especial prominence in the intercollegiate athletics of the University have been suspended for low scholarship will undoubtedly come as a distinct shock to the undergraduate mind, with its comfortable smugness in regard to probation. Nothing but this attitude is responsible for the fact that...
...undergraduate is his instinct to conform, to think and act as his fellows think and act. If probation were looked upon as a disgrace, and if a little healthy missionary work were done by classmates--in other words, if undergraduates realized some responsibility for their fellows--the sinking probationer would more often make an effective effort to reform his ways. It may sound extreme to say so, but the fact is that probation in Harvard College is no more of a punishment to a student than an indictment now is to a business...
Any man who can pass the entrance examinations to the College can, with reasonable effort, proceed to his degree. This incident, which weakens at least two University teams, may be of some benefit in waking men up to the need of assuming some responsibility for the work of their fellows...
The University swimming team will meet the Princeton team in the latter's tank this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Owing to the loss of men by probation and injuries the University's team has small chance of coming away victorious. Princeton stands at the head of the Intercollegiate League...