At their last meeting the Overseers took up for consideration the reports submitted by the committee on athletics. The following votes were passed:

Voted, Whereas, in the opinion of this board, an undue prominence is now given to athletic contests in the college, and the excesses and abuses attending the same and mainly incidental to intercollegiate contests should all be checked and guarded against for the future; therefore,

Voted, That in the opinion of this board contests should take place only in Cambridge, New Haven and such other New England city or town as the committee on athletics may from time to time designate; that university teams alone should be permitted to take part in the intercollegiate contests; that students should be prohibited from taking part in contests with organizations not belonging to the university, except on Saturdays and holidays.

Yeas.- Messrs. Eliot, Hooper, Green, Russell, Saltonstall, Walcott, Lincoln, Hodges, Fiske, Shattuck, Lee, Walcott 12.

Nays.- Adams, Storey, Peabody, Coolidge, Putnam, F. C. Lowell-6.

An address to the college faculty by numberous signers, urging that the restriction be abolished which prevents the college nine from playing with other than amateur clubs, and a letter to the board from R. H. Dana upon the subject of athletic exercises, were received and laid on the table.