Word: students
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...year ago the Student Council came out in strong opposition to undergraduates who desired to accompany the football team to Annapolis, since the trip involved a three-days' absence from Cambridge and considerable interruption of College duties. This year, with the West Point game as the only one away from home, it is reasonable to expect that there will be many men who want to see the game, and the team will undoubtedly appreciate the support of Harvard men in the bleachers...
...believe that the Student Council has taken the right attitude toward the subject in merely warning against cutting. It is not justice to the team that the football game should be pleaded as an excuse for absences, and men should not go to the game if by so doing they are going to establish a record for Saturday cuts...
...evening in the Union, has spent more than thirty years in the regular army. He knows West Point from his life there as cadet and superintendent, but he is also thoroughly acquainted with the American army from service in this country and in the insular territories. He is a student as well as a soldier, and his books on Indian life and languages are valuable contributions to native anthropological knowledge...
...seeking to prevent the wholesale cutting of lectures on the days of important athletic contests the Student Council is aiming at an evil which has been extremely serious in past years. Until the organization of the Council it was a practice that went unchecked by any restraint except that of the College office, and which brought confusion to Saturday lectures and disrepute on scholastic and athletic affairs alike...
...believe that cutting is no more necessary on Saturdays than on any other day of the week, and that engagements can be so arranged as to avoid the necessity of it. It is to the interest of the football team and of the student body in general that the request of the Student Council be complied with today...