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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Previous to the Carlisle football game, a notice was published in the CRIMSON by the Student Council in reference to cutting on the days of the big games. It was stated that on the corresponding Saturday of last year 161 men were absent from their 12 o'clock appointments and on the day of the Dartmouth game last year there were 228 men cut the last hour in the morning. Here was one of the so-called evils of intercollegiate athletics, and in particular intercollegiate football, and it happened to be one of the first to be dealt with...
...cents and figures are after all not the essential thing. If there was more attention to college duties on those two Saturdays than in the previous years and less distraction due to the intercollegiate contests, we have taken a step in advance. If a brief statement of the Student Council, setting forth the situation in concrete form, is instrumental in reducing the number of absences it has justified its position by just so much, both to the students and to the governing boards. Even in this regard, what does it matter in the long run whether or not this...
...speech Captain Burr expressed his appreciation of the support afforded the team by the undergraduate body, and laid stress upon their taking matters into their own hands in the organization of the Student Council at a time when a curtailment of intercollegiate contests seemed imminent...
...CRIMSON does not propose to enter here into the details of a system; it can only suggest what might be done. In the first place, the Student Council should have supervision of the whole competition, especially in regard to its duration and general character. It should have authority to exclude from the competition men who are not in sufficiently good academic standing. But most important of all, the final choice of the assistant manager should be made not by the manager who conducts the details of the competition, not by the members of the team which is to be managed...
...should be borne in mind that the Student Council is a representative institution whose interest is to look after the welfare of the whole undergraduate body. It is thus in the best position to make a selection which shall be for the interests of the team to be managed and at the same time entirely fair to all competitors for the position. Moreover, if such a plan were adopted, the existing managers of teams would be relieved of the unenviable burden of responsibility for the selection. Finally, there would result a uniform method of selection applicable to all teams...