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...following is taken from a letter to the Oberlin Review :-My three hours visit made me like Harvard. Her students are evidently gentlemen, and during my short stay I saw not one element of rowdyism which is observed so much in some Eastern colleges...
...appointment for examination may not be too long delayed. The award will be based on the general physical improvement of the competitor between his two examinations, i.e. between November 1 and the time of the Winter Athletic Meetings in March. Dr. Sargent will be the sole judge, and the element of muscle-increase will be the principal one in making the decisions. The prizes will be given on the first Ladies' Day in the Winter Meetings...
...matters were allowed to go on for a number of years as they did for the past year it is my opinion that the athlete would spend far more time on his athletics than he did when there was a trainer and that thus, although the objectionable "professional" element would be taken away, the other objection so often urged "that athletics take too much time" would be greatly increased. Besides this if there is no trainer an athlete can not help worrying more than he otherwise would and thus another objectionable feature is introduced. From all this I conclude that...
...keep the yard free from obnoxious intruders. If the crowd of the "unwashed" who now frequent the yard were made to understand that they were, like beggars and pedlars, in danger of being "given in charge to the police," our class days, also, would be freer from a disagreeable element, who now regard class day as a public holiday of their...
...rule, and that prices paid to "shackers" had ruled much higher then at present. Still we can hardly believe that the average paid "shackers" under the new arrangement is less than before. That shacking is losing its attractions may be due to the fact that the element of chance is now divorced from the employment. We can hardly doubt that the fascination attaching to the chance of one day receiving a quarter in payment for his labor, although receiving the next day nothing but thanks, must be great to the youth of the street, educated in the school of dime...