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...recently been discussed by college faculties, and which is not yet settled, is whether college organizations should be allowed to play with professional organizations, and also whether they should be allowed to employ professional trainers. There can be but little doubt that no harm need necessarily follow from a contest with a professional team at the proper time and place. Professional teams are under rigid discipline ; and the opportunity for association with the members of a team during a contest, at the worst, is slight. Professional athletes are not ipso facto men of depraved natures. They are neither better...
...rest of the week Mr. Jones will meet all candidates for the Boylston contest in Sanders' theatre instead of Holden...
...that necessarily corrupts the morals. The other two objections, while they have without doubt foundation in individual cases, have not in general been warranted by the practice of college students, either in this country or in England. Whenever a man has been seriously or permanently injured in an athletic contest, it has invariably been traced either to the natural unfitness of the individual for the contest, or more frequently to a hasty, inadequate or injudicious preparation-excepting in the case of field sports, such as base-ball and foot-ball; and there the risks of injury are much less than...
...contest for the Oelrichs Lacrosse cup will take place May 1st, on the grounds of the Stevens Institute Athletic Association, at Hoboken, New Jersey...
Since the excitement consequent to the sparring contest at the winter meeting has died out and it is too far into the future to predict anything about those which shall occur next year, the present seems a most advisable time for discussing a change in regard to them. Some few complaints have been made from time to time against allowing any boxing whatsoever at the meetings, but that any such radical change will be made, or even that such a move would be desirable, we do not believe. But there is one point that has been gradually forced upon...