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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...petition is still at the CRIMSON office. Go there today and sign without fail. Only when the number of names has reached a large majority may we fairly say that Harvard College has offered the Faculty a real and effective solution...
There is an old saying, "It's always darkest before dawn." Once upon a time this may have been quoted by some optimistic undergraduate. But after so many phantoms of false morning in the days of Harvard athletics, after so many years of Juggernaut-like sacrifice on the part of the players; after an humble but ceaseless endeavor by all undergraduates to nourish in their midst a situation, maimed, tethered and hamstrung, all those interested in sport are by this last absurdity fairly roused into sitting up and taking notice. The only apparent opportunity to express one's sentiments...
...hide one's light under a bushel. The cry of splendid showing gives no satisfaction. It is a poor thing, though a logical result of undergraduate reactionary sentiment, when they consider what the team has done in spite of the meddlesome interference of the Faculty and Corporation. Therefore I say instead of dipping a wrinkled thumb into the situation which at the best has been a hodge-podge mess of pottage, better to stand aside in dignified silence and watch. Then if football or any other sport does not by itself earn the justification of its independent existence...
...view of the proposed abolition of winter sports, I should like to say a few words in behalf of the minor teams. Undergraduate opinion is almost unanimous in favor of maintaining the present system. If the position of the Faculty makes this impossible, the question confronts the Athletic Committee of making the compromise which will be most satisfactory to the University as a whole. They have submitted such a proposal. The question now arises: Is this the most satisfactory solution of the difficulty? Is it fair that the minor sports should bear the whole brunt of this curtailment? Hockey, basketball...
Before passing an opinion on this action it is only fair to say that the Athletic Committee is in as hard a position as a body of men could well be. Confronted on the one side by two Faculty recommendations "to curtail largely the number of intercollegiate contests," and on the other by an undergraduate sentiment violently opposed to such an action, the Committee has felt called upon to act, and has therefore taken the first step in yielding to the stronger of the two opinions. But, if there is to be a concession it is apparently coming...