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ATHLETICS.

Games and sports of all kinds are under the special direction of
the General Athletic Association, a student organization whose object
is to promote this class of physical exercises. The faculty, by
means of its committee on athletics, exercises a general advisory

control, endeavoring to foresee and avert dangerous tendencies or
excess in physical exercises, while giving to the students, as far as
possible, entire liberty of management: a strict limit is placed upon
the character of intercollegiate games and the number played away
from the university.