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Dean Briggs, who with Major F. W. Moore '93, represented the University at this convention said in an interview: "I sincerely hope that this year such expenses in the development of teams as the training table can be considerably cut down. There is no reason why we cannot produce the same interest in contests as before, but with a great reduction in expenses." Major Moore, who is Graduate Treasurer and Secretary of the H. A. A., was reappointed a member of the intercollegiate rules committee for football at this same meeting...
...tables and training houses, and the holding of intercollegiate boat races within term time are some of the changes which the war will force upon the college world, in the opinion of Dean William McClellan, chairman of the University of Pennsylvania Athletic Council. In a recent interview Dr. McClellan said...
...purpose of the convention, which will be held at the Hotel Astor," said Dean Briggs to a CRIMSON reporter, "will be to form some general program for intercollegiate athletics which will be in keeping with after-the-war reconstruction. There is an almost universal opinion that useless expenditures, such as the maintenance of too many training tables, must be reduced...
Major Heermance is well satisfied. He said: "I am very well pleased with the spirit which both the officers and the men have shown during the past two weeks. The demobilization has progressed without any disorder or serious confusion, and the work has certainly been a credit to the unit, to the University, and to the men themselves...
This spirit was repeated by Chancellor Shipley, who in the absence of Sir Henry Jones, of the University of Glasgow, again took the floor. He also dwelt on the value of the pure sciences, such as mathematics. To illustrate this he said that seven years ago he was on a commission to chart the currents at the bottom of the North Sea, an assignment apparently impractical. But in the war the British were able to place their mines, but ahead of the maps made by this commission, so that the mines drifted exactly where they were expected to. He spoke...