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...they fear "contamination" and a "degradation of college spirit of honor and fair play." It is also well known that it is the desire of many of the faculty that intercollegiate sports should be narrowed down to contests between Harvard and Yale. This is the opinion of the conservative element. Having reduced the contests to Harvard and Yale, the faculty feel that they can bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Yale faculty to induce them to abolish professional practice at that college. Here, it seems to us, the faculty is at fault. Even supposing such an arrangement could...
...followed and that an extra meeting, similar to the one under Mr. Lathrop's management, will be held. There is no doubt that such a step would be successful. It was proved last year that these winter meetings had not exhausted the interest in such exhibitions, and when the element of crew patriotism is added there is always an assurance of financial success...
...widen the breach to an alarming extent. Whenever the election of a school committee happened to come up, everybody would go to the polls knowing that the approval of parochial schools would come before the committee then elected, and hence the religious question would always be a dominant element in the election. A less desirable issue could hardly be brought up in a city or town election when there is a division of the population between Catholics and Protestants. President Eliot said he believed it to be possible to reconcile the Roman Catholics to the American public school...
With the approach of spring, the subject of paramount interest with the athletic element of the college is the make-up and prospects of the University nine for the coming season. Any prognostications about the position which we shall occupy in the league, are, at this season of the year, entirely out of place. The hard work of the men in the gymnasium has not been lost. By it some men have been shown to be worthless; the majority have shown a marked improvement...
...contrary, protection annihilates the greatest civilizing element, international trade.- Cairnes, ibid...