Word: winter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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When the Athletic Committee requested the appointment of an undergraduate committee to confer with Faculty members and with the Athletic Committee on the present tangled situation, we expressed some regret that final action on the winter sport proposal had not been taken before a further move was contemplated. We did not intend, however, to cast any reflections on the wisdom or the necessity of the appointment of such a committee...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee held last evening it was voted to ask the four class presidents to appoint a committee of undergraduates to confer with the Athletic committee in accordance with the recommendation of the Faculty. Action on the question of abolishing winter sports, now before the Committee, was again postponed in order to give the undergraduates time to present their plans, as the Faculty wished...
Tonight the Athletic Committee will meet to discuss the general situation in the light of the new petition, and, we hope, to inform us definitely what policy is to be followed in the future. At last the suspense is to be ended and we are to know whether winter sports will continue at Harvard, with the future maintenance of athletics placed in the undergraduates' hands. To reiterate our arguments would be a waste of printers' ink. Whatever the result, may it be satisfactory to the Faculty and undergraduates alike, and forestall further interference and consequent weakening of the Committee...
There is one more point that needs to be made clear before the Athletic Committee takes action on the winter sport question. Throughout this unfortunate discussion the Faculty has taken great pains to point out individually on every possible occasion that it is not as a body hostile to athletics. In every instance intercollegiate contests have been carefully distinguished...
...Without doubt winter sports have a right to live, and none more so than hockey. But to abolish intercollegiate contests altogether will certainly kill this game. Intracollegiate athletics cannot exist without a varsity team which the contestants hope sometime to make...