Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...they have a right to expect co-operation on the part of all players in the maintenance of clean amateur sport at Harvard. No student ought to play on a professional nine whether he receives money or not, as by doing so he puts the University under suspicion. There is no objection whatever to a student playing a game of ball with his friends for fun at any time of year; but joining a regularly organized nine which plays all summer is too much like making a business of sport. The decision to exclude Story and Murphy from baseball this...
...undermining of decent amateur sport this practice might become. Every effort should be made to break it up amongst college men. Any student who goes to a hotel where he receives his board for nothing, even though at the invitation of some friend, is likely to place himself under suspicion if he plays baseball. There is a vast difference between playing ball for one's own amusement and playing it for the entertainment of boarders at a summer resort...