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While we rejoice at the first sign of a new freedom in athletics. we must speak of a second petition which is now before the athletic committee. This petition asks for permission to play against professional teams. In order to remove all obstacles to the success of our Nine, this last relic of an ill-advised system of restriction, should be swept away. We ask this not in a spirit which "gets an inch and wants an ell," but because we deem it to be essential to the best interests of our Nine. Should this second petition be granted...
...third meeting of the Conference Francaise takes place Tuesday evening Mr. E. M. Bayer will speak on Leon Gambetta...
CONFERENCE MEETING.The next College Conference Meeting will be held on Tuesday evening, December 18, in Sever 11, at 7.30 p. m. Rev. John Graham Brooks of Brockton will speak on "Some Possibilities for Students to do Good Work in the Cities...
Tonight the second college conference meeting will be held in Sever 11. Prof. Norton will speak on "Interest in Literature in its Relation to the Life of the Undergraduate." Those who have been in college longer than this year do not need to be told of Prof. Norton's charm as a speaker. The opportunities afforded us of hearing the most eminent among our professors are so few as to make them most valuable, and these conference meetings are useful for this as well as for other reasons. The students are all earnestly requested to represent...
...Saturday afternoon, certain other members of the class should feel obliged to give proof of their fatness at the Adams House Saturday evening. One of the most unsatisfactory features of our college life is that every athletic victory brings with it disagreeable consequences; that every bright cloud, so to speak, has its dark lining. Can not an individual be a freshman and a man at once? If these would-be tough freshmen were mature enough to realize how silly such performances are, it is safe to say they would not disgrace their class and themselves again. It is unfortunate that...