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...last evening the sullen fire-cracker sounded its note of alarm in the yard. Windows were hastily opened and anxious heads thrust out; hurrying crowds gathered at the scene. A bright light illuminated the eastern side of the quadrangle, and in dangerous proximity to University Hall the devouring element, vomiting forth smoke and flame from a half dozen tar barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared and attempted to quench...
...proper and commendable. The same rule is in operation, we understand, at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, England. A rule similar to the fifth rule has, we believe, already long been in force. It will be seen that the most important of these regulations relate to the exclusion of any element of professionalism from our college sports. This end they will undoubtedly accomplish...
...worth noticing that while preparations are being made to administer the great gift of a New England man to the South, a grand jury in Georgia has just issued a formal denunciation of general education, on the ground that it unfits a large element of the population for the work they are best adapted to perform. "And there are," gravely adds a leading Southern paper, "a great many people in Georgia that agree with the grand jury...
Professionalism is certainly an element that should be carefully barred out from an active influence in college athletics; here, if any where, the line between professional and amateur should be carefully guarded. Opinions will differ as to the present case; whether professionalism had made too great an entry into our college sports, particularly at Harvard, or not, and whether the present measures were called for or not. But, at any rate, students and faculty are so entirely at one in regard to the abstract question of professionalism that no very serious objection will be made on the part...
...braced a little, but not enough to get back into the good graces of the students. Some of the lacrosse men themselves were glad enough to have their association abolished, for they perfectly understood the cause of so doing, and wished to rid the association of an obnoxious element which in a measure was responsible for the chronic defeat met with everywhere. No objection whatever is offered to their reorganization in the fall, and the chances are that if the obnoxious element is kept out, and the right men obtain control, lacrosse will once more be set on its booming...