Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...GENTLEMEN...
...year had begun. The other entered Princeton College for the first time, as a special student, only a short time before the Princeton-Harvard game on Nov. 16, which was the first game in which either of them played. The natural, although perhaps mistaken, inference is that these gentlemen were brought to Princeton to play football The inference is strengthened in the one case by the engrossing nature of the duties of an instructor in a large preparatory school; and in the other by the fact that the gentleman referred to is said on trustworthy authority to have entered...
...presented evidence in the "official statement" in refutation of the wide-spread opinion that three of the players put on the field by Princeton at the beginning of the year, two of whom played against Yale and Harvard, are professionals, and ineligible, for any college team. One of these gentlemen, Mr. Ames, is currently reported to have received specific sums of money for his services on base-ball teams at different times last summer in Chicago. At a meeting of the Advisory Committee held in New York, on Nov. 14, 1889, the Harvard delegate endeavored to have the true facts...
...none of these cases do we consider the acceptance of money a reflection upon the character of these gentlemen; but we believe it a very serious detriment to amateur and to college sports that men who have voluntarily assumed the status of professionals should be received upon college teams. Since no protest against the reception of these men from within their own college has been made public, we feel that a different opinion prevails at Princeton...
...following gentlemen are bona fide undergraduate students of Princeton college on the rolls for the present college year, pursuing courses which require attendance upon fourteen or fifteen lectures or recitations a week in the following manner: For the B. A. degree-K. L. Ames, '90, H. H. Janeway, '90, J. S. Black, '91, P. C. Jones, '91, E. A. Poe, '91, J. S. Riggs, '92; for the B. S. degree-R. Furness, '91; for C. E. degree-R. H. Warren, '93; special students-R. H. Channing, W. S. Cash, B. S. Donnelly...