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Married. W. L. ("Young") Stribling, 21, famed light heavyweight pugilist, to Miss Clara Virginia Kinney, 19, brunet granddaughter of Judge Dupont Guerry (onetime President of Wesleyan College, Macon...
...purpose of the tentative resolutions which embody the main points of the CRIMSON and Wesleyan Conference plans, is to facilitate the discussion of means for the prevention of further professionalism affecting intercollegiate football. The delegates have been asked, with these resolutions in mind, to come to the Conference prepared to give constructive criticism on these proposed remedies...
...Boston Herald: "If the evil has not been exaggerated. What is the remedy? And what do the students say for themselves? At the Wesleyan University conference they were agreed that football needs to be curtailed in the interest of education. . . . And if college athletics really need revision, what more promising sign could there be than the undertaking of the task by the students themselves...
...definite statement of the question for the first debate, in which one Harvard team will meet Brown at Providence, and the other will debate with Wesleyan at Cambridge, was received yesterday from E. s. Noble, President of the Eastern Intercollegiate Debate League. The question as stated by Mr. Fred Perkins, prominent Providence lawyer and official counsel of the League is, "Resolved. That this house deplores the condition of intercollegiate athletics in eastern colleges...
...evil has not been exaggerated, what is the remedy? And what do the students say for themselves? At the Wesleyan University conference they were agreed that football needs to be curtailed in the interest of education; their recommendations include the reduction of the number of intercollegiate games to four, the abandonment of "championships," a graduate coaching system on a professor's salary basis, and no direction from the coaches during games. And if college athletics really need revision what more promising sign could there be than the undertaking of that task by the students themselves? --The Boston Herald...