New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-02
AMONG THE COLLEGES.
HARVARD.

THE QUESTION OF REFORM IN FooTBALL-PRo-
ryssoR NoRToNs LECTURE
- Cambridge. Dec (SpecaD.-Tne cnie1 question
of interest at Harvard just now Is as to what 'he
faculty will do with regard TO football Tne game
with Yale a week ago created a commoton among
both professors and students on account OF us
roughness and in certain instances its brutality
Asrhe students fully expected to see the harvard
% Pennsylvania game cancelled The Athieuc |o"-
rrIttee the facutys agent, DECIDED that IL "~'
better to let the game take place II 1or no o'he
purpose than to test Its roughness as coHila'eu
frith the Yale game Professor Ames. chairman
Of that committee. went himself to see this game
IN order to help him to decide what to DO
There is no doubt that some action Will be taken.
. President Eliot Professor Ames and all the me"i-
hers of the faculty refuse to say just what they
think will be the recommendation or rule 'ha' VII,
:. he enforced with regard to football genera
canvass among the professors has brought out vi.
fact that they not inclined 10 take ra'
measures. They are willing to trust 10 Inc eoou
sense of the players. though as rule they 90 III,
,s, on comnelling the umpire enforce the rule
with regard to smuggling. Not single professor
wanted to the game entirely stopped 'hous"
majority expressed wish whch Is seco"ueu "'
President Eliot that intercollegiate a'hieto'
- .bould be made to assume less important part
OF college lite. President Eliots report III reo'u
ary will undoubtedly treat largely OF footoa'' anu
the reform measures necessary
The annua, cross-country run of the athieuc az
eociation took place Tuesday afternoon o'ei @
regular course of five and one-half mics inc
race was we'll contested except as to hrsl place.
which was walkoysr for j. l. GooT nqsw q; T Gn
finished in "a min: % secs l. ~ D'e"' 90 49,
ished In 81 min. IL sec -, .,,,r association
Unless SHOWS prevents. the cyciing assoui anth
will hold another road race In the coming iio" W
Several good riders have been developed III INC
course OF the this fall ,.. Harvard
r 1Sor The chess tournament between HarVa' u
Princeton Columbia and Yale, 10 take pa I'd 81
New-York. in the Christmas vacation hal '"'"
will send four players ,.uos 90 tho season
One OF the pleasantest lectures OF .ht .pron.n
,ros r,ven nv Nr Copeland. Tuesday. on brown
Inc and Tennyson' He read selections iio'h W."
authors. o,,. >, tho collage daily issued
ON extra edition last Sa turday. containing na
.n,e Cuts Of both footballs teams, ana OF av h
{ Camn and DR. Brooks, with accounts o, po nn
,nan1s the individuals, their season woIh, " ~
cnmnarison man for man. In the allenIpo" wy
aUor had bulletins direct from SprnSnelu, anu
Reappt several thousand Cambridge people pos.eo On
~ nroeress OF the game. This was neNel oe
tnra pattempted in Cambridge After sollsM IA,
~ "a shion the students were kept Gu
~, ,,h The main facts OF Thursdays game III fhi'd-
delphia . -. or. lecture on Some
Objectionable Features of Modern Democracy, w.
Ssrgeiv attended and greatly commences upun
Nv those who heard It, chiefly for It's IanleaI Wv"
on the question Of Phstinism ana tnt a. n''ei' va"
practical and heedessly progressive spirit