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Physical training in its broad sense means correct habits. It means temperance. It means morality. College sports today, as represented by the sentiment of undergraduates, mean manliness and fair play. The qualities of judgment, decision, coolness in the midst of excitement, and self-reliance, are developed. The value of discipline is learned by those who become members of teams, and all learn to care for their health. People who live in college towns will testify that with the increase in athletic sports there has been a decrease in the number of student escapades which disturb the peace and injure...
Resoived, That we deeply lament his untimely death, and will every retain an affectionate remembrance of his many endeavoring qualities, his open nature, his ready wit and clear judgment...
...contemptuous tone in speaking editorially of the list of "Immortals" recently published in our columns. "Out of respect for the ability of Harvard students," says the News, severely, "We prefer to look upon it as an expression of personal liking, rather than the result of any deliberate exercise of judgment." We are most free to confess that we do not altogether approve of the list ourselves; but will the News kindly print us a list of its own which shall be formed, not from "personal liking," but from a "deliberate exercise of judgment," that we here at Harvard may clearly...
...Saturday the revolting students who have staid out so long returned to the college work. The faculty thereupon issued the following statement: "The senior class of Hamilton College has this day resumed work on the original terms set forth by the faculty. Those conditions were, in the judgment of the faculty, so fair and reasonable that they have not thought it wise or possible to make any change. Various friends of the college have suggested other conditions, but the faculty have thought it inexpedient to entertain them. Every effort which a class could possibly make to secure changes or concessions...
...amateur or even professional teams of known reputation, they can scarcely be said to associate haphazard with whatever "gaming association" comes along. The evils that are said to arise from intercourse with professionals have never been clearly defined, and a clear definition of them is necessary before any judgment ought to be passed upon college athletics. There is a decided objection to professionalism creeping into athletics, but hitherto its advances have been so slight and have been met with so much disfavor by college men who manage athletics that any reform may be safely trusted to their hands. Such...