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This week's Bulletin, which appeared yesterday, contains a communication signed "X", which puts the vote of the Faculty to curtail intercollegiate athletics squarely up to the Corporation and Athletic Committee. It advocates immediate action, on the grounds that if the other colleges will not stand by Harvard, it is right for Harvard to support her principles alone. This, says the communication, has been done successfully in educational matters. It proposes a practical test of the proposition, claiming that "if the experiment leaves us worse off than we are, there will be profit in that demonstration," and, further, asserts that...
...poor critic that resents criticism." The communication published in another column this morning presents a point of view different from that already given by and through the CRIMSON. In taking the stand it did, the CRIMSON, realizing that a bad mistake had been made, blamed the track management for an error in judgment. We still believe that this error was made. To say so can hardly be called jumping at conclusions. No one makes mistakes on purpose; the only fair way to consider the matter is whether or not the track management should have been able to foresee the result...
...graduate, and we should oppose any changes that would lay us open to further adverse criticism for following a vacillating polley in our athletics. Last year Coach Pieper and Captain Dexter found no difficulty with conflict of responsibility. The system proved satisfactory: so let us stand...
...University hockey team will play against University of Montreal, this afternoon, at 3 o'clock, in the Stadium. Tickets at the gate may be obtained at price for admission to the Stadium, extra for a reserved seat in the wooden stand. Season ticket holders will receive a reduction of 25 cents, but H. A. A. tickets do not admit to the game. Only holders of side-line badges will be admitted to the rink...
Possibly both these methods might be combined with good results, and the elimination of the five-yard boundary would be especially good, as any simplification of the work of the officials is to be commended. The one objection to the rules as they now stand is that the official's attention is so taken up by looking for geometrical violation of the rules that it cannot be placed so thoroughly on the more important points of conduct and play...