Word: statement
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...interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday Dean Briggs made the following statement in regard to the future of athletics in the colleges: "I am not opposed to intercollegiate athletics; I have yet to find a reason for abolishing them; but the system needs many changes. I am in sympathy with the resolutions passed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the Christmas recess, recommending that University authorities take more direct responsibility for athletics; that physical training and athletic sport be regarded as an important part of education, supervised, as other parts of education are supervised, by a department of instruction...
Yale's official registration, completed yesterday, amounted to 1915 students, according to a statement issued by the University authorities. Every day a few students are entering the institution from military of naval service, as rapidly as they are being discharged. Of the present list, 352 are freshmen, 250 sophomores, 200 juniors and 150 seniors, in the academic department, a total...
...Bursar's office has made the following statement...
...been practically decided by the University that for the balance of the current college year there will be no active military or naval training for Harvard undergraduates, according to a statement made yesterday by President Lowell. In view of the facts that the great majority of men returning to Cambridge from the service would not receive additional benefit from such training, that the systems of training recently enforced do not appear the best which can be devised, and that the development of a practical and permanent system of military instruction for coming classes is of primary import, the university authorities...
Until orders to the contrary arrive, the Naval Unit will continue according to its original schedule. It is not likely that Secretary Daniels' statement, that the men in the navy who wish to return to college, will be discharged as soon as possible, applies to the various units of the S. N. T. C., as the men in these units are at present being provided with a college education by the government...