Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-09
On Athletics Is Announ-
csd by the Faculty.
One Year Residence and Ex-
eIus|on Of deficiency" students.
shtsut Nay Formulate Own Regulations
Under Certain Restrictions.

providence. r. l., March S.--The one
year residence rule, the exclusion OF
all students who have entrance condl-
tions on DEFICIENCIES amounting to four
hours of the preceding term or more
Than nine hours for all previous
FERNS: limitations If absences to ana
for athleti: purposes to a number not
exceeding those which a student may
tske without accounting for them; and
the appointment Of a supervisor OF ath-
letics we're insisted On in a commune
cation made by the faculty Of Brown
University to the students at chapel
here today. The students are left TO
formulate rules of organization, ehgt-
bility and play In accordance with
these conditions subject to the APP
proval Of the faculty. It was decided
to present the communication at
meeting Of the faculty on March 6,
the faculty body having approved
these sections Oh the report made by
the faculty committee on athletics,
consisting Of Professors Edmund ID.
B. Delabarre. Courtney Langdon. AL
bert X. Potter. George w. Benedict
and Frederick w Marvel.
In part The following communication
was submitted to the students:
THAT collegiate athletic con-
tests as al present conducted are at
tended by evils demanding immediate
remedy, is a conviction that has forced
itself recently on all our educational
institution! Exaggtration Of the i'm
rortance of athletics; systematic
evasion Of ru's or eligibility; secret
inducements j., money or its equival-
ent; excessive luxury. extravaganza.
and often misnc nagement in +he use
OF funds; frequent discourtesy, I'M
fairness and brutality in the conduct
Of games--theSe are evils apparently
characteristic of inter- collegiate ath-
letics everywhere.
For several years this faculty has
Fought, through the inter- collegiate
conference on athletics and otherwise
to devise by inter collegiate agreement
some effective plan for dealing with
these evils. Having failed In this en-.
d,avor and earnestly desiring to make
possible the continuance Of these con
tests for The good there is in them, II
has declined to take Independent &C.
ton along lines IN some respects radi.
cnlly different from those in faOr else
where.
1.-The faculty has decided to adopt a
Eet of regulations subject to such re-
visions rs circumstances may seem to
require. as follows:
1.-THE appointment. subject to the
approval OF the corporation Of a sup
crvisor. Of athletics. amopg whose
duties shall be the exclusions from
teams of men who are physically I'M
FIT: control Of finances: supervision
of the work Of managers and of coach
ing and training; and, the mainte-
nance of proper standards of play and
conduct.
"2.-1.imitation Of the absences al
lowed for athletic purposes to a num-
Der not exceeding that which any
student may take without being re-
CURED to account for them.
"3.-Thc exclusion of all students
who have entrance conditions. and OF
all who have deficiencies amounting to
more than four hours Tor the prece ling
term, or more than nine hours for all
previous terms.
4.-The exclusion of all students in
their first year Of residence and of
graduate students
"5.-The retention in the hands of
the faculty of the power and obliga-
ton imposed upon it by the corpora
ton to make such notifications in the
future rs the interests of the univer-
sity may seer, to require
Subject to The restrictions enumer-
ated above. the faculty hereby en-
trusts to the students the power to de-
ferinine and the obligation to enforce
fhe rules Of organization. Of eligibility
and of play. under which their contests
shall be conducted. The only further
conditions II imposes are that the first
set of rules rasscd by them shall be
submitted I" ths faculty for approval:
mat no change in existing rules or IN
rules Subsequently adopted shall GO
into effect until the beginning of the
az ademic year following their adop-
ton: and that a copy of every change
In these rules shall be filed with the
secretary Of the faculty as soon as i,
Is adopted.
THE faculty is convinced that upor
the success or failure of this plan in
providing remedy for existing evils
Must depend the continuance or tn.
abolition of inter-colle siate athletics.