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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rule I. No team may have more than three men who have received their class numerals in Freshman year; and not more than one man who has received the University or second team letter, or letter from another college...
...these two, the less harmful is the two-period rule. It provides that no man may play on teams of three different periods in the same year; and obviously possesses the faults of inelasticity and arbitrariness of classification. For instance, no exception is made in the case of an unusually versatile athlete who wishes to occupy the interval between football and rowing with competition in wrestling and fencing. In regard to classification it is theoretically and also practically possible for men to make both the baseball and track teams in one season. A simple reform would do away with this...
...each class either leave College or enter a graduate school before the middle of the Senior year. The result is, the Harvard teams lose valuable Senior material which at other colleges always remains available throughout the third year of eligibility. Thus it is evident that the three-year rule and the three-year degree are in direct opposition: the former provides for three years of eligibility, and the latter reduces the term to two years. The three-year degree is now so firmly established that this inconsistency can be remedied only by an alteration of the athletic regulation...
From this consideration of the subject it appears that a rule permitting men who finish their College course in three years to remain in athletics for another year while in the graduate schools, would obviate every difficulty. It not only would offer those leaving College at the end of their Junior year an inducement to remain for another year, but would give those capable of better work something for which to strive...
...understanding of the Student Council is that probation for the purposes of this rule should be limited to probation as a result of low standing in studies...