Word: questions
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...saved, and the major schedules to be relieved of the danger of curtailment, final action must be taken now. Such action must be directed, as the, CRIMSON has constantly maintained, not to the Athletic Committee, but to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. By postponing its 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...
Today the Athletic Committee meets to consider further but not to take final action on the question of abolishing intercollegiate athletics during the winter months. It meets without Dean Sabine, who suddenly announced his resignation just before the recess. The committee will undoubtedly feel his loss, but will in all probability battle through the present crisis with two, instead of three Faculty members. As yet nothing has been done about naming a successor; indeed, it is even probable that no appointment will be made until the new Committee derives its power from the Corporation a month hence...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee yesterday afternoon the question of discontinuing the winter sports, now before the Committee, was not acted upon. The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, April...
Enough communications have been published in the CRIMSON'S columns to show the strength of undergraduate sentiment on the athletic question. For several days we have withheld editorial comment in order to give the University a chance to express itself. Thus far the arguments against athletic curtailment have been well stated, but by necessity very general. The CRIMSON still believes that the Faculty, and not the Athletic Committee, must be the object of our appeals. If the Committee believes that the Faculty has been influenced by the arguments, it may see fit to disregard the recommendations. If the Faculty...
...statesman must be absolutely frank with the people take a firm position which seems honest in his eyes, and not dodge the question or be two-sided about it. He must look at all questions from the vie-point of the nation and not from that of the locality, for what is good for the whole country must be good for a part of it. State and sectional interests should combine. Our whole history is the story of people working as a whole and against separations and groupings, and the national idea has won. It was the provincial idea that...