Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-29


The following is a statement OF inc
meeting of the Main" lntcrcol'eSiat'
| Arbitration Board held at orono, NC
last Saturday. oct. 90 1906.
Every under graduate ana 1acuitS
| member of the board were present an"
! two out Of the three alumni members
William i. Garcclon. the president
presided. After the routine business
had been disposed Of Prof Hrds1nah
Of Colby University presented the fol-
lowing statement to the board and
| asked for a ruling.
| Mr.. Carey, Colby Freshman, en-
tered Bates College i'll the fall Of 1904
on certificate from Leavittc Institute
and attended recitations for short
time. He then left college. In 1905 he
| took some steps towards re-cntcring
| BateS and played in the Freshman
Sophomore baseball game at Bates,
but did not enter regularly as a stu
dent Later in the year he entered
Rents Hill Seminary. from which in
Sttutlon ne entered Colby at the OPEN
| ing of this fall term on certificate.
The question which the Colby repre-
sentatives wished decided was, wheth-
cr under Article 8 of the intercollegiate
agreement of the association, Mr..
Carey was eligible to play on the Col
by Varsity teams during the college
year of 1867
Article 3 reads as follows: mo stu
dent going from one college to another
shall represent the college to which
he goes until after one year il. at
tendance at that college"
After thorough and amic1bIe Discus
SION, it was unanimously decided that it
would he unwiSe to Eivcany other than
strict Interpretation to the rule. and it
was therefore unanimously voted: ."rbat
Mr.. Carey be declared ineligible to rem
resent Colby in the Maine 1ntercolle giata
athletic contests for one year.
for the purpose Of having the inter-
probation of this article placed on roc
ord. 1T was unanimously voted that the
secretary make the following entry on
the minute book: ct seemed best 70 so
interpret Article 3 of the intercollegiate
agreement. that a student who has ut
any tune been u member of on" college
shall not represent another college for
one year after entering the second col
le%e. irrespective Of the time ana irre.
Spective Of the occupation Of such stu
dent in the meantime. including attend
ance at q fitting school"
1t was also unanimously voted Ia rec
onim"nd change in the constitution nv
inserting in the sixth line of Article E.
Section ]. after the words lin the same
order" the following: ''I-nIess otherwise
determined by the president ana secrc
tary of this hoard" 50 that the same
shall read as follows:
Regular meetings Of the board shall
be held twice annually. on the first Sat
urday after the 18th of October, and the
third Saturday in April. These meetings
shall be held i'm the various college
towns in the following order: Orono
Lewiston. Waterville and 50 On in the
sam" order. unless otherwise determined
by the president and secretary Of this
board. except in cases where disputes are
to he adiudicated. in which case the
meeting shall be al the site Of one Of tho
colleges not directly concerned in liz cot
tlement. In case all the colleges arc con
cernch the meeting shall be held at some
neutral point"
Prof. Jones Of the University If Maine
presented q question as to what inter
probation should be placed upon the word
college in Article , as applied 10 stu
dents VIII" came from institutions calling
themselves colleges, hut Of uncertain
standing. 1t was the unanimous sense Of
the meeting that Whenever. such cases
aro"e. each should be decided uron IFS
own merits
Mr.. Gar"elon. stating that his duties as
Inh"!Grad'at" coach for the Harvard
track team. IN addition TO his other work
made 1t impossible for MIN to consent to
reelection. the board very reIuctantIy
consented to release him from his du
tics and tho time for tho annual election
Of officers having arrived tho following
officers were elected unanimouSl5: Prpsi
dent, Louis G. Southard T. of NJ II.
secretary and treasurer. Prof. r. T..
Pomcr"y. Bates College, after which the
meeting adjourned
IL is matter Of n good deal Of inter
est to the college athletic world to know
that sirce tho three colleges Bates. Gil
by and Maine organized this board Of ar
hltratl"n in 1902, that every point Of diff
ference between the colleges has boon
amicahly adjusted. and all causes Of fc-
ION eliminated between the different in
Sttutions by unanimous action
In cases of doubt as to eligibility of
candidates for athletic teams, the rerre
sentativcs Of the college to which the
student belongs, have presented his case
to the board for action i'm advance. as
was done in the above case. and as a
consequence there is no occasion for pro-
testing players later in the season.
1t is also matter Of congratuIation
and encouragement to all concerned "a
know that the representatives from thet
three different colleges have from the
commencement taken the highest ethical
stand ir relation to every subject brought
before them.
1t is the invariablc custom for the
board to discuss the question placed be-
fore ut informally. thus bringing out all |
the points of difference and eliciting all /
the facts known in relation to the matter
IN hand. after which each individual |
member Of the board expresses his in
dividual opinion and not until then is the
question put to vote, and the good re-