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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-The faculty seems to be extremely solicitous that the students of Harvard should not become brutal; but they appear to be equally anxious that they should be dishonorable. Obliging our eleven to break its agreement, robbing the Yale ball team of some $1500 seem to have been matter of not the slightest consequence to them, when a few days ago, they took measures to stop the game with Yale on Thanksgiving day. This is an exact parallel case to what happened about a year ago. In the spring of '82 the Athletic Association entered into an agreement...
...rules quoted as showing the brutality of the game as now played are in a sense mere forms. The same rules may be seen in base-ball. No one would say that base-ball was brutal because there are rules that forbid intentionally knocking a man down or intentionally striking him. Surely the latter rule indirectly implies more brutality than the ones so much objected to by the committee. It seems to us that the committee objects more to the letter of the rules, the possibilities they suggest, than to their spirit. But after all we object most strenuously...
...framed to prevent intentional unfair playing. This leads them to the inference that, since unfair playing is guarded against, a "manly spirit of fair play is not expected," but that instead, there is a "spirit of sharpers and roughs" in the games. Then, since the sport has "degenerated into brutal and dangerous contests." they sagely arrive at the conclusion that the Harvard eleven cannot take part in any further contest this fall...
...first it was hard to believe that any such announcement could be true, later developments have shown that the committee are thoroughly in earnest. while they state that they are backed by the faculty and corporation. While we can well understand what they complain of in foot-ball as brutal and demoralizing, and respect the good motives with which we are bound to credit them, and while we would ourselves gladly hail any reform of the objectionable features of the game as at present played, we can scarcely find words in which to characterize their recent move. We believe that...
...expected to govern the conduct of all players, but that on the contrary the spirit of sharpers and of roughs has to be guarded against. The committee believe that the games hotly played under these rules have already begun to degenerate from a manly, if rough, sport into brutal and dangerous contest. They regard this as a serious misfortune in the interest of the game, which if played in a gentlemanly spirit may be one of the most useful college sports as a means of physical development. They regret that they did not give earlier attention to the character...