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...statistics for the University are of interest in connection with the question of compulsory athletics, because they show how large a proportion of the undergraduates are now taking part in some major sport. Including Freshmen, there are 513 candidates for crew, football, track, and baseball. The last registration figures of the College show an enrollment of 2016 men, of whom 288 are unclassified, and consequently ineligible to represent the University in outside contests. Therefore 29 per cent., or almost one out of every three eligible undergraduates, is attending regular practice in one of the four major sports. When this total...
Yale has agreed to the University's request that the wording of the subject for the triangular debate on May 2 should be changed and has proposed that the University word as well as choose, the question. The University debating authorities have consented and announce that the following question will be debated instead of the wording announced yesterday; "Resolved, that the eighteenth amendment to the United States Constitution should be repealed...
Because of its complicated phrasing, Yale's framing of the subject for the triangular debate on May 2, has not met with the approval of the University debating authorities and a new wording has been requested. The question, as announced by Yale is: "Resolved that the eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States should be repealed and that the power to regulate or prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages should not be committed to the Federal government." It is expected that Yale will submit a new wording within the next few days...
...general work of Phillips Brooks House Association during the period in which the retiring cabinet has held office but not in any way to review the more special activities of the Association's special committees and constituent societies, whose work is presented in their respective reports. The question that invariably arises at the end of the year is whether the Brooks House has been as successful as usual; and if the test of success is to be found in the ability to adapt itself to meet new and constantly changing conditions and in the amount of good done...
...clock, when President Eliot will speak on "College Education in the Reconstruction Period." This address will be of especial interest as it will be followed by another forum on the same subject by Professor Moore, who will take up the purely theoretical and religious side of the question, whereas President Eliot will deal with the more practical aspect...