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...publish today a short resume of the majority and minority reports of the Committee from the Board of Overseers on the condition and conduct of athletics at Harvard. The report of the majority is open to criticism. Many of the facts therein detailed are undoubtedly true, but it is difficult to understand how a fair-minded body of men could have clamly and deliberately drawn such an exaggerated conclusion as the recommendation of the entire abolishion of intercollegiate contests. This conclusion is not justified by the premises, as any candid observer of both sides of the question must allow...
...have not space to enter into more detailed criticism of the report, but these few points have struck us as being the most important. The majority, in recommending the abolishion of intercollegiate contests, have aimed a blow at Harvard interests, which, if it takes effect, will have a material influence over the coming welfare of the university. The minority have recommended a milder course-the abolition of all intercollegiate contests save with Yale or other colleges within New England. Whether this would be a wise measure or not, it is difficult to decide at the present moment. It is certainly...
...brotherhood has not promoted the interests of its members, since (a) its action has tended to decrease rather than increase the net reward of their labor: Report Mass. R. R. Commission for 1887 on B. and M. strike; daily papers on C., B. and Q. strike (March-April, 1888), especially Boston Herald, March 18, 1888; (b) its educational effect is nil; (c) it incites to violence: Report of Sec. of State of Penn., on the riot of 1877; Boston Globe for March 30, 31; Post, April 3; Herald, April...
...Osgood Pierce, Ph. D., on Hollis professor of mathematics and natural philosophy; of John Trowbridge, S. D., as Rumford professor, were confirmed. A communication was received from Hon. Theodore Lyman, presenting his resignation as a member of the board, was read and the resignation was accepted. Minority and majority reports were received from the committee on athletics and were laid on the table. The committee upon the resolution of the alumni of Lawrence Scientific School that "in the government of a university all branches of the university should be represented," sent in its' report through Mr. Walcott. The report...
Owing to an unusual press of business at the last meeting, the faculty were unable to take any action in regard to the petition of the New York alumni. The fact also that the Board of Overseers had not yet published their report on athletics made the Faculty desirous that the petition should not be considered until the opinion of the Overseers had been ascertained...