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...number of twenty-four on the subject of college athletics, Friday afternoon, resulted in an interesting and suggestive discussion of the question in its various aspects as suggested by the recent course of the faculty and the faculty committee on athletics and by President Eliot's recent report. The total attendance numbered about twenty-three; the list of students invited was as follows: From '84, T. J. Coolidge, Fenn, Goodwin, LeMoyne, Lovering and Nash. '85, Atkinson, Baldwin, Carpenter, Goodale, Storrow and J. E. Thayer. '86, Adams, Barnes, Cary, Huddleston, R. D. Smith and Vogel. '87, Cabot, Higginson, Kuhn, Michael, Mumford...
...urged in reply, was to professionalism in toto. Toleration of it in a modified form even was as bad almost as its most aggravated development as now illustrated at Yale, and the experience of the England Universities in recent years would teach us that nothing less than a total abolition of all connection with the professional and sporting world, with lines sharply defined, would serve as a remedy...
...President Eliot's recent annual report is far from satisfactory as an expression of such policy. It is in many points vague and noncommttal, and can fairly in part be termed a special pleading. It criticizes without suggesting a remedy, unless by implication we take it to advocate the total abolition of inter-collegiate contests as a remedy. If this report is unsatisfactory in these respects how much more so has been the course and the various utterances of the faculty committee on athletics as an indication of the policy of the faculty. The course of this committee...
Germany has twenty-four universities, with a total of 25,608 students...
...last regular meeting of the Harvard Total Abstinence League the secretary announced that thus far 40 new members have been admitted to the league this year. A small special assessment was voted to meet current expenses...