Word: problems
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...decision on the question of winter sports in order that a petition may be presented to the Faculty, the Athletic Committee acknowledges the superior power of the governing board. Read over the petition with great care, therefore, and be prepared to do your share in solving the greatest 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...
...apply a remedy from the inside. The realization that the conduct of athletics can and ought to be improved has, we think, been lately brought home to the College as a whole, and we believe that the time has come when the undergraduates are ready to deal with the problem alone, and solve it in a more permanent way than can be done by the enforcement of regulations from without...
...sentiment has been already strongly developed and will, we believe, grow in strength in the future. The extensive curtailment of athletics by regulation we believe to be unwise, and request that before the enactment of any radical regulations the undergraduates be given opportunity to attempt the solution of the problem themselves. We are confident that this is possible and give our assurance that we will do what we can in this direction...
...printed a request to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that the undergraduates be allowed to co-operate in the eradication of the existing evils caused by intercollegiate athletics. We believe, as we have stated in the above request, that this is the best possible solution of the problem, and therefore that it is the duty of every undergraduate who wishes to preserve intercollegiate athletics in this University to sign the request, and in the future to do his utmost to live up to the assurance which he has given. G. G. BALL. J. RICHARDSON, JR. G. G. GLASS...
...element in the athletic problem now under discussion, something ought to be said in behalf of the swimming team, and of swimming as a college interest. To be sure, little is heard of this branch of the minor sports, but that is mainly due to the lack of any University swimming pool, an institution which is needed, for obvious reasons, just as much as a new gymnasium. The swimming team has always been as much handicapped for want of a place in which to practice, as would be the University football team if it were confined throughout its season...