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...Faculty would act in direct contravention to their established policy of allowing the undergraduates to govern themselves. If the request is granted, the men will feel bound in honor to do nothing which would tend to dishonor our University. Games with professionals would teach the nine to accept defeat with resignation. They would learn to control their feelings; and thus a better condition of affairs would exist when we meet with defeat upon the college ball field...
...college at large, for with such a team at Mott Haven our chances for one event are pretty well assured. The class tug-of-war teams that have pulled against '88 must acknowledge that they have had worthy adversaries, and that fact ought to lessen the bitterness of defeat. With our congratulations go our best wishes for success at Mott Haven. Eighty-eight can boast that, in one thing at least, she has been unsurpassed...
Harvard has held the championship in lacrosse for three successive years, and there is no reason why another year should not be added to her series of victories. However, Princeton will exert every nerve, and we must do the same if we would avoid defeat. The team will make several trips next spring-one to Princeton, one to play Stevens, and probably one to New York, as was done last year. The Lacrosse Association is out of debt, and indeed, under the excellent management of last year, has retained a small surplus. This is then the condition of the Lacrosse...
...that in less than a month the weather will permit the use of a barge on the river, but at present the harbor is covered with ice. The number of candidates has been reduced to fourteen, but out of this number Yale expects to select a crew that will defeat Harvard in June. Of the men now in training, Stevenson, Wilcox, Carter and Woodruff rowed last season; Cross and Hurd were substitutes. The remaining candidates-Wells, Corbin, James, G. Burroughs, H. Burroughs, Hartwell, Newell and Brewster-have rowed in their class boats and have had considerable experience...
President Eliot and one or two others expressed the opinion that athletic victory or defeat has no influence on the attendance at any college. Others, among whom was President Dwight, held that while there were doubtless, some persons who were inclined toward one college or another by its athletic success, the public opinion as regards the number of such person is greatly exaggerated. The general opinion was that such circumstances as athletic victory or defeat do have some effect; but the influence they exercise is confined to a small class of persons...